Charles L. Bosk, PhD Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences Organizational Dynamics Program 3401 Walnut St. 328A Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 Phone: 215-898-7673 Fax: 215-573-2081 E-mail: cbosk@sas.upenn.edu Website: http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/soc/People/boskcharles.html

Biography

Charles L. Bosk is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure, and All God's Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital. He has published widely on numerous topics in bioethics, sociology, and medical journals, and is a Fellow of the Hastings Center. His current research interests include the relationship of social science to bioethics, the impact of patent policy on genetic discovery, medical error and the socialization of medical students. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Research

• "What Would You Do? The Collision of Ethics and Ethnography," University of Chicago Press, Chicago (forthcoming).
• "The Licensing and Certification of Ethical Consultants: What Part of 'NO' Was So Hard to Understand" in M. Aulisio, R. Arnold, and S. Younger (eds.) Doing Ethics Consultation: No Time for Ivory Towers. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore (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 (forthcoming).
• "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 (forthcoming 2002/3).
• "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.
• "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.
• "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 Press of America.
• 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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