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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... therapies or who had participated in a commercial diet pro- gram or a self - help group , which would all be considered mainstream in many other countries . Only 1 percent reported having used homeopathy in the past twelve months , and ...
... therapies or who had participated in a commercial diet pro- gram or a self - help group , which would all be considered mainstream in many other countries . Only 1 percent reported having used homeopathy in the past twelve months , and ...
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... therapies that do more good than harm . A movement known as evidence - based medicine is growing , with the most visible hall- mark being the Cochrane Collaboration based in Oxford , En- gland . The Cochrane Collaboration is named after ...
... therapies that do more good than harm . A movement known as evidence - based medicine is growing , with the most visible hall- mark being the Cochrane Collaboration based in Oxford , En- gland . The Cochrane Collaboration is named after ...
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... Therapy Among Women with Stage I or II Breast Cancer , " Journal of the American Medical Association 266 ( Dec. 25 , 1991 ) : 3433–38 ; Gina Kolata , " Sharp Regional Incongruity Found in Medical Costs and Treatments : Surgery for ...
... Therapy Among Women with Stage I or II Breast Cancer , " Journal of the American Medical Association 266 ( Dec. 25 , 1991 ) : 3433–38 ; Gina Kolata , " Sharp Regional Incongruity Found in Medical Costs and Treatments : Surgery for ...
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... Therapy , " The New York Times , Feb. 15 , 1995 , 1 . xix And while the science of clinical trials : Committee on Government Operations , " Misused Science : The National Cancer Institute's Elimi- nation of Mammography Guidelines for ...
... Therapy , " The New York Times , Feb. 15 , 1995 , 1 . xix And while the science of clinical trials : Committee on Government Operations , " Misused Science : The National Cancer Institute's Elimi- nation of Mammography Guidelines for ...
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... 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 xxiii Foreword by Kerr L. White, M.D..
... 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 xxiii Foreword by Kerr L. White, M.D..
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.