Section on Medical Sociology / Ethnography and Health Quality in a Global Context

Charles L. Bosk, University of Pennsylvania

Interpreting Practices for Refugee and Immigrant Patients in U.S. Hospital Outpatient Clinics - Susan E. Bell, Bowdoin College

Public Reporting in Cardiac Surgery in the United Kingdom and United States - Mark Exworthy, University of Birmingham; Jonathan Gabe, University of London; Ian Rees Jones, Cardiff University

Talk of Culture as a Barrier to Change in Hospital Work - Julia E. Szymczak, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Ambiguous Structures as a Source of Organizational Miscommunication: The Entrepreneurial Management of Public Care Work - Antero Olakivi, University of Helsinki

Clinical Governance: Quality and Ceremony in English NHS Hospitals - Karen Marguerite Staniland, University of Salford; Robert Dingwall, Nottingham Trent University; Graeme Currie, University of Warwick