Medicine and CultureMacmillan, 1996 M11 15 - 204 pages A classic comparative study of medicine and national culture, Medicine and Culture shows us that while doctors regard themselves as servants of science, they are often prisoners of custom. |
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Page ix
... Britain : Economy , Empiricism , and Keeping the Upper Lip Stiff 101 United States : The Virus in the Machine 124 Plus Ça Change 153 Notes 157 Acknowledgments 193 Index 195 Foreword to the Owl Books Edition The More Things Change.
... Britain : Economy , Empiricism , and Keeping the Upper Lip Stiff 101 United States : The Virus in the Machine 124 Plus Ça Change 153 Notes 157 Acknowledgments 193 Index 195 Foreword to the Owl Books Edition The More Things Change.
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... Britain to register their products in all the countries simultaneously . By late 1995 , the commission had registered exactly one drug . Alternative medicine is becoming more popular with patients in the United States , but it's still ...
... Britain to register their products in all the countries simultaneously . By late 1995 , the commission had registered exactly one drug . Alternative medicine is becoming more popular with patients in the United States , but it's still ...
Page xvii
... Britain and the United States continues to get overly excited about other diseases that are nei- ther new nor particularly on the rise . The best example occurred when streptococcus A , the flesh - eating bacteria , made the head- lines ...
... Britain and the United States continues to get overly excited about other diseases that are nei- ther new nor particularly on the rise . The best example occurred when streptococcus A , the flesh - eating bacteria , made the head- lines ...
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... Britain . ) More recently , American researchers found that American patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome had an abnormal blood pressure response when they were turned upside down , another piece of the puzzle indicating ...
... Britain . ) More recently , American researchers found that American patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome had an abnormal blood pressure response when they were turned upside down , another piece of the puzzle indicating ...
Page xix
... screening for younger women , in marked contrast to the Royal College of Radiology in Britain , which warns women away from unnecessary mammograms . In his foreword to Medicine and Culture in 1988 , Foreword to the Owl Books Edition xix.
... screening for younger women , in marked contrast to the Royal College of Radiology in Britain , which warns women away from unnecessary mammograms . In his foreword to Medicine and Culture in 1988 , Foreword to the Owl Books Edition xix.
Contents
Is Medicine International? | 15 |
Culture Bias in Medical Science | 23 |
France Cartesian Thinking and the Terrain | 35 |
West Germany The Lingering Influences of Romanticism | 74 |
Great Britain Economy Empiricism and Keeping the Upper Lip Stiff | 101 |
United States The Virus in the Machine | 124 |
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Page xxiii - ... percent of all contemporary clinical interventions are supported by objective scientific evidence that they do more good than harm. On the other hand, between 40 and 60 percent of all therapeutic benefits can be attributed to a combination of the placebo and Hawthorne effects, two code words for caring and concern, or what most people call "love.