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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... less common than in Western Europe . While one study showed that about one - third of U.S. residents reached by telephone had used some form of alternative medicine during the preceding twelve months , this figure included those who had ...
... less common than in Western Europe . While one study showed that about one - third of U.S. residents reached by telephone had used some form of alternative medicine during the preceding twelve months , this figure included those who had ...
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... less on health care and live longer than U.S. citizens do . But in the United States , where many people assume that good medi- cine consists of doing as many high - tech tests as quickly as pos- sible , it was simply assumed that there ...
... less on health care and live longer than U.S. citizens do . But in the United States , where many people assume that good medi- cine consists of doing as many high - tech tests as quickly as pos- sible , it was simply assumed that there ...
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... 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 their less ...
... 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 their less ...
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... less importance if there were indisputable evidence that all interventions of all physicians were always of clear benefit to all patients . Incompetence and malpractice apart , such an idyllic state of affairs lies in some remote and ...
... less importance if there were indisputable evidence that all interventions of all physicians were always of clear benefit to all patients . Incompetence and malpractice apart , such an idyllic state of affairs lies in some remote and ...
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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.