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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... practice : • Prior to the fall of the Wall , German medicine could be divided into two distinct cultures . While both East and West Germany shared a common heritage of medical practice up to World War II , the two separate states formed ...
... practice : • Prior to the fall of the Wall , German medicine could be divided into two distinct cultures . While both East and West Germany shared a common heritage of medical practice up to World War II , the two separate states formed ...
Page xvi
... practice as a result of the study because they hadn't been treating as such this particular group of patients . When an Ameri- can study concluded that AIDS patients who were given AZT showed improvement in their T - cell counts ...
... practice as a result of the study because they hadn't been treating as such this particular group of patients . When an Ameri- can study concluded that AIDS patients who were given AZT showed improvement in their T - cell counts ...
Page xxiv
... 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 ' problems are important determinants of clinical care ...
... 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 ' problems are important determinants of clinical care ...
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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.