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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Page xviii
... problem may be nearer to the underlying physiology in many patients than the infectious explanations favored in the United States . I'm con- vinced that a man I know who keeps fainting would be better off if American doctors recognized ...
... problem may be nearer to the underlying physiology in many patients than the infectious explanations favored in the United States . I'm con- vinced that a man I know who keeps fainting would be better off if American doctors recognized ...
Page xxiv
... problems are important determinants of clinical care . International comparisons that emphasize values , underlying paradigms , and outcomes of care may well yield greater understanding of the optimal ways in which to im- prove health ...
... problems are important determinants of clinical care . International comparisons that emphasize values , underlying paradigms , and outcomes of care may well yield greater understanding of the optimal ways in which to im- prove health ...
Page xxv
... Problems that have solutions are not problems , " said John Updike . Why " do something " when comforting and caring are needed and , when there is no clearly beneficial technology , more fundamental research is the best approach . As ...
... Problems that have solutions are not problems , " said John Updike . Why " do something " when comforting and caring are needed and , when there is no clearly beneficial technology , more fundamental research is the best approach . As ...
Page xxvi
... problem , the patient gets better , " said Adolf Meyer , first professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University . The analyses presented in this volume of patients ' interactions with their physicians in France , Germany , the ...
... problem , the patient gets better , " said Adolf Meyer , first professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University . The analyses presented in this volume of patients ' interactions with their physicians in France , Germany , the ...
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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.