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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... patients in the United States , and it is no longer uncommon for Americans , at least in New York City and California , to talk about their homeo- pathic or herbal remedies or their appointments with their acupuncturist . Women with ...
... patients in the United States , and it is no longer uncommon for Americans , at least in New York City and California , to talk about their homeo- pathic or herbal remedies or their appointments with their acupuncturist . Women with ...
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... patients . But the way these particular changes have occurred only un- derscores the important role that national cultures play in medi- cal practice : • Prior to the fall of the Wall , German medicine could be divided into two distinct ...
... patients . But the way these particular changes have occurred only un- derscores the important role that national cultures play in medi- cal practice : • Prior to the fall of the Wall , German medicine could be divided into two distinct ...
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... patients in the United States , but it's still much 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 ...
... patients in the United States , but it's still much 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 ...
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... patients ' results , skewing his outcome in favor of lump- ectomies , American reporters responded by showing their bias for studies performed in the United States . Even if the falsified data entered by the one investigator had altered ...
... patients ' results , skewing his outcome in favor of lump- ectomies , American reporters responded by showing their bias for studies performed in the United States . Even if the falsified data entered by the one investigator had altered ...
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... patients have been conditioned to expect . While the new economic incentives in health care may , over the years , change the American patients ' expectations for aggres- sive treatment , their preferences for more , and more intense ...
... patients have been conditioned to expect . While the new economic incentives in health care may , over the years , change the American patients ' expectations for aggres- sive treatment , their preferences for more , and more intense ...
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.