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 xvi
... better to do something or do nothing , tend to see disease as something that comes from the outside . By contrast , Continental doctors and patients are more likely to emphasize weaknesses of particular organs or imbalances between ...
... better to do something or do nothing , tend to see disease as something that comes from the outside . By contrast , Continental doctors and patients are more likely to emphasize weaknesses of particular organs or imbalances between ...
Page xviii
... better off if American doctors recognized the German concept of circulatory collapse . Finally , there has been a much greater effort to find out which medicines really work , and a movement to try to use only those therapies that do ...
... better off if American doctors recognized the German concept of circulatory collapse . Finally , there has been a much greater effort to find out which medicines really work , and a movement to try to use only those therapies that do ...
Page xix
... better to do something rather than nothing , will decide that it's unethical to have a placebo arm ; end the trial sooner ; or find some ways to get around the process of randomization . A re- searcher conducting a randomized trial to ...
... better to do something rather than nothing , will decide that it's unethical to have a placebo arm ; end the trial sooner ; or find some ways to get around the process of randomization . A re- searcher conducting a randomized trial to ...
Page xx
... better , and he would hazard that the overall figure might be 20 to 25 percent . Of course , the figure varies greatly depending on the country , the institution , and the doctor . I have two regrets about the original edition of ...
... better , and he would hazard that the overall figure might be 20 to 25 percent . Of course , the figure varies greatly depending on the country , the institution , and the doctor . I have two regrets about the original edition of ...
Page xxiii
... better than they were a generation ago , it is still the case that only about 15 percent of all contemporary clinical interventions are supported by objective scientific evidence that they do more good than harm . On the other hand ...
... better than they were a generation ago , it is still the case that only about 15 percent of all contemporary clinical interventions are supported by objective scientific evidence that they do more good than harm . On the other hand ...
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.