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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... treated by a lumpectomy , an analysis of 1993 Medicare data showed that in some areas of the country lumpectomies were performed on only 1.4 percent of women with breast cancer . In the areas of the country with the highest uses of ...
... treated by a lumpectomy , an analysis of 1993 Medicare data showed that in some areas of the country lumpectomies were performed on only 1.4 percent of women with breast cancer . In the areas of the country with the highest uses of ...
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... treated if they had certain cancers . For locally advanced bladder cancer , 92 percent of American and Canadian ... treat an infant with no brain if the parents want treatment ; in the same year a British court Foreword to the Owl Books ...
... treated if they had certain cancers . For locally advanced bladder cancer , 92 percent of American and Canadian ... treat an infant with no brain if the parents want treatment ; in the same year a British court Foreword to the Owl Books ...
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... treat until treatment has been shown to be harm- ful ; British doctors like to wait until treatment has proven ... treated with AZT . The British demurred , waiting for an endpoint more significant than improved blood counts , and ...
... treat until treatment has been shown to be harm- ful ; British doctors like to wait until treatment has proven ... treated with AZT . The British demurred , waiting for an endpoint more significant than improved blood counts , and ...
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... treating people with AIDS than are Canadian and American doctors , perhaps partly due to the fact that they aren't as afraid of catching the virus in the course of general medical care , and partly due to their less puritanical view of ...
... treating people with AIDS than are Canadian and American doctors , perhaps partly due to the fact that they aren't as afraid of catching the virus in the course of general medical care , and partly due to their less puritanical view of ...
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... treat low blood pressure even if it was associated with fatigue , perhaps a sign that the work ethic has never been that strong in Great Britain . ) More recently , American researchers found that American patients diagnosed with ...
... treat low blood pressure even if it was associated with fatigue , perhaps a sign that the work ethic has never been that strong in Great Britain . ) More recently , American researchers found that American patients diagnosed with ...
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.