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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... preferences for more , and more intense , treatment remain strong , particularly when compared to that of British ... preference for doing as little as possible sim- ply reflects the economics of the National Health Service . Decid ...
... preferences for more , and more intense , treatment remain strong , particularly when compared to that of British ... preference for doing as little as possible sim- ply reflects the economics of the National Health Service . Decid ...
Page xvi
... preferences are also reflected in the way the two nations have adopted new treatments or gotten rid of old ones . Ameri- cans still like to treat until treatment has been shown to be harm- ful ; British doctors like to wait until ...
... preferences are also reflected in the way the two nations have adopted new treatments or gotten rid of old ones . Ameri- cans still like to treat until treatment has been shown to be harm- ful ; British doctors like to wait until ...
Page xxi
... preferences are also reflected in : Thomas J. Moore , Deadly Medi- cine : Why Tens of Thousands of Heart Patients Died in America's Worst Drug Disaster ( New York : Simon & Schuster , 1995 ) ; John D. Hamilton et al . , " A Controlled ...
... preferences are also reflected in : Thomas J. Moore , Deadly Medi- cine : Why Tens of Thousands of Heart Patients Died in America's Worst Drug Disaster ( New York : Simon & Schuster , 1995 ) ; John D. Hamilton et al . , " A Controlled ...
Page xxiv
... it , and , above all , different values and preferences of patients and their physicians limit the potential benefits of both technology and caring . How did the medical profession ever develop the notion that xxiv Foreword.
... it , and , above all , different values and preferences of patients and their physicians limit the potential benefits of both technology and caring . How did the medical profession ever develop the notion that xxiv Foreword.
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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.