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Physicians At Work, Patients In Pain

Biomedical Practice And Patient Response In Mexico

Kaja Finkler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

273 Seiten

1991
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-1155-5 (ISBN)

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Offers a detailed picture of how modern biomedicine is altered when practised in developing countries. Addressing the question of therapeutic outcome, the author examines various aspects of biomedicine that influence patient response.

This ethnographic study offers a detailed picture of how modern biomedicine is altered when practised in a developing country. Addressing the question of therapeutic outcome, Dr Finkler examines various aspects of biomedicine that influence patient response. The doctor-patient relationship is seen as especially important. Physicians and patients speak for themselves in interviews and through the author's observations of doctor-patient encounters. The author concludes by discussing the significant problems for doctors in reconciling their training in biomedicine with the cultural dimensions of the society in which they practice.

Part 1 The setting: the Mexican context; sickness - a Mexican view; health care delivery in Mexico. Part 2 Biomedical practice in Mexico: history of medicine in Mexico; biomedical beliefs and practices; variations in biomedical beliefs and practices; the medical consultation. Part 3 Patient's response to biomedical practice: patients and their complaints; patient-perceived therapeutic outcomes; outcomes - a phenomenological perspective. Part 4 Two systems of healing: a comparison between sacred healing and biomedicine.

Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-8133-1155-1 / 0813311551
ISBN-13	978-0-8133-1155-5 / 9780813311555
Zustand	Neuware