Physicians of Western Medicine - Anthropological Approaches to Theory and Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)

After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about her or his taken-for-granted commonsense (therefore cultural) understanding of medicine. The editors and their collaborators show the medical leviathan, warts and all, for what it is: changing, pluralistic, problematic, powerful, provocative. What medicine proclaims itself to be - unified, scientific, biological and not social, non-judgmental - it is shown not to resemble very much. Those matters about which medicine keeps fairly silent, it turns out, come closer to being central to its clinical practice - managing errors and learning to conduct a shared moral dis course about mistakes, handling issues of competence and competition among biomedical practitioners, practicing in value-laden contexts on problems for which social science is a more relevant knowledge base than biological science, integrating folk and scientific models of illness in clinical communication, among a large number of highly pertinent ethnographic insights that illuminate medicine in the chapters that follow."

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Culture, Illness and Healing, 6
Release date:	December 1984
First published:	1985
Editors:	Robert A. Hahn • Atwood D. Gaines
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	345
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
ISBN-13:	978-90-277-1881-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
LSN:	90-277-1881-4
Barcode:	9789027718815

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