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Physicians At Work, Patients In Pain - Kaja Finkler

Physicians At Work, Patients In Pain

Biomedical Practice And Patient Response In Mexico

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Buch | Hardcover
273 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-28290-5 (ISBN)
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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.

Kaja Finkler is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Preface -- Introduction -- The Setting -- The Mexican Context -- Sickness: A Mexican View -- Health Care Delivery in Mexico -- Biomedical Practice in Mexico -- History of Medicine in Mexico -- Biomedical Beliefs and Practices -- Variations in Biomedical Beliefs and Practices -- The Medical Consultation -- Patients' Responses to Biomedical Practice -- Patients and Their Complaints -- Patient-Perceived Therapeutic Outcomes: An Aggregate Analysis -- Patient-Perceived Therapeutic Outcomes: A Phenomenological Perspective -- Two Systems of Healing -- A Comparison Between Sacred Healing and Biomedicine -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Physicians at Work, Patients in Pain

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 233 mm
Gewicht 707 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-367-28290-9 / 0367282909
ISBN-13 978-0-367-28290-5 / 9780367282905
Zustand Neuware
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