Surgeons and the Scope
ISBN: 9781501711305
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Video endoscopy -- Social aspects; Telecommunication in medicine -- Social aspects; Industrial sociology;

In Surgeons and the Scope , James R. Zetka Jr. describes the impact of the video laparoscope on the work lives of contemporary surgeons. The video laparoscope allows surgeons to peer into the inner abdomen with a miniaturized camera, thereby enabling...


James R. Zetka Jr. is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York, Albany. He is author of Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946-1973.

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