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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... countries of the European Community . In the world of medicine , much has also changed . Alternative medicine has ... country from doing too much to patients to , xi Foreword to the Owl Books Edition: The More Things Change . . .
... countries of the European Community . In the world of medicine , much has also changed . Alternative medicine has ... country from doing too much to patients to , xi Foreword to the Owl Books Edition: The More Things Change . . .
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Lynn Payer. our country from doing too much to patients to , in some cases , doing too little . The spread of acquired ... countries could not agree on which drugs should be readily available because they were weighing the risks and ...
Lynn Payer. our country from doing too much to patients to , in some cases , doing too little . The spread of acquired ... countries could not agree on which drugs should be readily available because they were weighing the risks and ...
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... country was going to accept the decisions of other countries as to what products to allow on the market , they sought another solution . Currently , each country in the Euro- pean Community retains its barriers to products from the oth ...
... country was going to accept the decisions of other countries as to what products to allow on the market , they sought another solution . Currently , each country in the Euro- pean Community retains its barriers to products from the oth ...
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... their respective countries . In 1992 , an American court ruled that hos- pitals must continue to treat an infant with no brain if the parents want treatment ; in the same year a British court Foreword to the Owl Books Edition XV.
... their respective countries . In 1992 , an American court ruled that hos- pitals must continue to treat an infant with no brain if the parents want treatment ; in the same year a British court Foreword to the Owl Books Edition XV.
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... countries . In his classic 1971 book Effectiveness and Efficiency , Dr. Cochrane wrote that if black indicated the highest number , then " one would see the UK in black and scattered black patches in Scandinavia , the USA and a few ...
... countries . In his classic 1971 book Effectiveness and Efficiency , Dr. Cochrane wrote that if black indicated the highest number , then " one would see the UK in black and scattered black patches in Scandinavia , the USA and a few ...
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.