Books by Marianne Paget

In 1988, Marianne Paget published the "Unity of Mistakes: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Medical Work" in which she argued that error is an intrinsic feature in medicine an experimental and uncertain activity. This work presents a collection of her personal and professional writings on the phenomenon of error in medicine.

A text on the nature of medical error. Covering a wider range of error than the terms 'malpractice', 'incompetence', or 'negligence' denote, it takes an existential view of medical work in which things go wrong as a matter of course, and probes what the author called the 'complex sorrow' that can result when things do go wrong.