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University of Pennsylvania
Sociology Department
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6299

Center for Bioethics
3401 Market Street, Suite 300
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Telephone:
(215) 898-7673
(215) 573-8109
Fax: (215) 573-2081
Email: cbosk@sas.upenn.edu

Full CV

Education:

1970  B.A., Wesleyan University
1974  M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1976  Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1984-85, 1987 University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Philadelphia, PA

Research:

• Medical Sociology/Professions and Professionalization
• Deviance and Social Control
• Field Methods of Research

Selected Publications:

2005 What Would You Do? The Collision of Ethics and Ethnography, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Forthcoming.

"Now that We Have the Data, What was the Question?: Peer commentary on the ASBH Report on Graduate Education in Bioethics. American Journal of Bioethics.

2003 "The Licensing and Certification of Ethical Consultants: What Part of 'No' was so hard to understand"" in M. Aulisio, R. Arnold, and S Youngner (eds.) Doing Ethics Consultation: No Time for Ivory Towers. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore .

"No Longer Outside Looking In: Medical Students Perception of humor and Slang in the Clinical Setting." (Noone, Kinsman, Bosk, Sankar, and Ubel). Journal of General Internal Medicine (in Press.)

2002 "Obtaining Voluntary Consent for Research in Desperately Ill Patients." Medical Care 40, 9 Supplement: v 64-v69.

2002 "What is Honesty in a Resident?" (O'Connell and Bosk) in C Messikomer, J.Swazey, and A Glicksman (eds.) Society and Medicine: Explorations of Their Moral and Spiritual Dimensions. Essays in Honor of Renee C. Fox. Transaction Publishers: New Jersey.

2000 "Irony, Ethnography, and Informed Consent" in B.Hoffmaster (eds.) Bioethics in Social Context. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.

2000 “Margin of Error: The Sociology of Error in Ethics Consultation” in S. Rubin and L. Zoloth-Dorff (eds.) Margin of Error: The Nature, Inevitability, and Ethics of Error in Biomedical and Ethics Consultation. University Publishing Group, Hagerstown, Maryland.

1992  Bosk, Charles. All God's Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in Pediatric Hospital. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

1990  Bosk, Charles. Chapter Two, Forgive and Remember, "Error Rank and Responsibility,” abridged and reprinted in G. Annas, S. Law, and R. Rosenblatt (eds.) American Health Law. pp. 383-87. Little, Brown & Co. Inc, Boston.

1988  Bosk, Charles. Chapter Two, Forgive and Remember, abridged and reprinted in J. Dowie and A. Elstein (eds.). Professional Judgment: A Reader in Clinical Decision-Making, pp. 522-543. Cambridge University Press, New York.

1979  Bosk, Charles. Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

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