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American Medicine As Culture

Autor Howard F. Stein
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 mai 2019
This book situates biomedicine within American culture and argues that the very organization and practice of medicine are themselves cultural. It demonstrates the symbolic construction of clinical reality within American biomedicine and shows how biomedicine never leaves the realm of the personal.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367003197
ISBN-10: 0367003198
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 149 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface -- Introduction -- Medicine, Value Orientations, and Their Meanings -- Medical Metaphors and Their Role in Clinical Decisionmaking and Practice -- Medicine, Moralism, and Social Control -- The Influence of Group Dynamics on Clinical Thinking and Practice -- Money and Medicine: An Identity Problem -- Socialization and The Process of Becoming a Physician -- The Self of the Physician: Links Between Culture and Personality -- Conclusion

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This book situates biomedicine within American culture and argues that the very organization and practice of medicine are themselves cultural. It demonstrates the symbolic construction of clinical reality within American biomedicine and shows how biomedicine never leaves the realm of the personal.