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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... doctors continue to choose radical mastectomy . While the majority of women with breast cancer can be safely treated by a lumpectomy , an analysis of 1993 Medicare data showed that in some areas of the country lumpectomies were ...
... doctors continue to choose radical mastectomy . While the majority of women with breast cancer can be safely treated by a lumpectomy , an analysis of 1993 Medicare data showed that in some areas of the country lumpectomies were ...
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... doctors and patients . A study that came out in the fall of 1988 showed how great this divide really was . British , Canadian , and American specialists in genitourinary oncology were asked how they personally would want to be treated ...
... doctors and patients . A study that came out in the fall of 1988 showed how great this divide really was . British , Canadian , and American specialists in genitourinary oncology were asked how they personally would want to be treated ...
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... doctors like to wait until treatment has proven beneficial , and then they're likely to ask , How beneficial ? While American doctors began treating mild cardiac arrythmias with anti - arrythmic drugs until a study found that at least ...
... doctors like to wait until treatment has proven beneficial , and then they're likely to ask , How beneficial ? While American doctors began treating mild cardiac arrythmias with anti - arrythmic drugs until a study found that at least ...
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... doctors are less afraid of treating people with AIDS than are Canadian and American doctors , perhaps partly due to the fact that they aren't as afraid of catching the virus in the course of general medical care , and partly due to ...
... doctors are less afraid of treating people with AIDS than are Canadian and American doctors , perhaps partly due to the fact that they aren't as afraid of catching the virus in the course of general medical care , and partly due to ...
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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.