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Physicians of Western Medicine - Anthropological Approaches to Theory and Practice (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
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Physicians of Western Medicine - Anthropological Approaches to Theory and Practice (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
Series: Culture, Illness and Healing, 6
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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."
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