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 xi
... health . The United States has de- bated and rejected health care reform and ultimately ended up with a new nonsystem , one that has changed the incentives in our country from doing too much to patients to , xi Foreword to the Owl Books ...
... health . The United States has de- bated and rejected health care reform and ultimately ended up with a new nonsystem , one that has changed the incentives in our country from doing too much to patients to , xi Foreword to the Owl Books ...
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... healthy . And the movement known as evidence - based medicine is making he- roic efforts to improve the science base of clinical medicine , to help ensure that medicine does more good than harm to patients . But the way these particular ...
... healthy . And the movement known as evidence - based medicine is making he- roic efforts to improve the science base of clinical medicine , to help ensure that medicine does more good than harm to patients . But the way these particular ...
Page xiv
... health campaigns what advice was given to pregnant French women about drinking , he looked surprised . None , he said , since the issue was simply not considered important . During the debate over health care reform in the United States ...
... health campaigns what advice was given to pregnant French women about drinking , he looked surprised . None , he said , since the issue was simply not considered important . During the debate over health care reform in the United States ...
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... health care costs has caused a reorganization of the market . When health care providers get paid per patient , rather than per act , the financial incentive is to do as little as possible , thus putting the providers in direct conflict ...
... health care costs has caused a reorganization of the market . When health care providers get paid per patient , rather than per act , the financial incentive is to do as little as possible , thus putting the providers in direct conflict ...
Page xvi
... of disease causation simultaneously : the AIDS virus comes from outside the body and attacks , yet it has made Americans more aware of the crucial role that internal defenses play in keeping one healthy xvi Foreword to the Owl Books ...
... of disease causation simultaneously : the AIDS virus comes from outside the body and attacks , yet it has made Americans more aware of the crucial role that internal defenses play in keeping one healthy xvi Foreword to the Owl Books ...
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.