Doctors' Work in the Public Hospital Sector in Hong Kong

The Construction of Meanings and Values in Medical Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-981-966694-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 112 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

Reihe: Quality of Life in Asia

This book explores how public hospital sector doctors in Hong Kong understand their work and careers. Using narrative interviews with 27 medical doctors, the book examines how their personal values provide motivation and meaning for their work. How do they cope with the various hardships and crises they face in public hospitals? How can other doctors navigate similar issues in their own work? What should medical students know about the reality of medical work, as they stand poised to start their own career journeys? What should medical administrators know about work at the coal-face as they seek to tackle the problems the sector faces? This book offers a rare, personal window into doctors’ views on their own work. The book also provides a useful resource for students and scholars in the fields of medical humanities, public health, the sociology of work, and narrative research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wong, Sunny H.

Chan, Evelyn Tsz Yan

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Public Hospital Doctors’ Narratives in Hong Kong.- Chapter 3 Narrative Interviews.- Discussion.- Conclusion: Moving Forward.

Über Autor(innen)

Evelyn Chan was previously an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she taught for 13 years. Chan has published widely on the representations of work in the writings of Virginia Woolf and Joseph Conrad. She has also published essays and books on narratives of education in the humanities. This book combines her interests in narrative research and the meaning of work.

Sunny Wong is Clinician-Scientist and Associate Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He received his MBChB with Honors at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his D.Phil. in University of Oxford on human genetics and infectious diseases. He completed his clinical training in gastroenterology and endoscopy in the Prince of Wales Hospital Hong Kong. His main research interest is on gut microbiome, investigating the host-microbe interaction in digestive and metabolic diseases, and exploring this for discovery of novel biomarkers and therapeutics.