Download or read book Becoming Gods written by Vania Smith-Oka and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Gods is a vivid ethnography of how a cohort of doctors-in-training in the Mexican city of Puebla learn to become doctors. It illustrates the messy, complex, and nuanced nature of medical training, where trainees not only have to acquire a monumental number of skills but do so against a backdrop of strict hospital hierarchy and a crumbling national medical system that deeply shape who they are.