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 xviii
... 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 more good than harm . A movement known as evidence ...
... 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 more good than harm . A movement known as evidence ...
Page xx
... concept was not really necessary to explain the medical differences I detailed . National culture is sufficient , and I think my description of what I meant by national character makes it plain that I meant the effect of national ...
... concept was not really necessary to explain the medical differences I detailed . National culture is sufficient , and I think my description of what I meant by national character makes it plain that I meant the effect of national ...
Page xxiv
... concepts of health and disease , and approaches to medical practice . Payer provides chapter and verse at both the macro and micro levels to make the case that differences in national character and professional responses to patients ...
... concepts of health and disease , and approaches to medical practice . Payer provides chapter and verse at both the macro and micro levels to make the case that differences in national character and professional responses to patients ...
Page xxv
... concepts of health , disease , suffering , and death in diverse cultures . We need more trans- cultural studies of the type Payer has given us in this fascinating volume . " When the patient and the physician agree on the Foreword xxv.
... concepts of health , disease , suffering , and death in diverse cultures . We need more trans- cultural studies of the type Payer has given us in this fascinating volume . " When the patient and the physician agree on the Foreword xxv.
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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.