Physicians of Western Medicine: Anthropological Approaches to Theory and Practice (1985)Paperback - 1985, 31 December 1984

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Part of Series
Culture, Illness and Healing
Part of Series
Culture, Illness, and Healing
Print Length
345 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
31 Dec 1984
ISBN-10
9027718814
ISBN-13
9789027718815

Description

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.

Product Details

Book Edition:
1985
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
31 December 1984
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.91 cm
ISBN-10:
9027718814
ISBN-13:
9789027718815
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
345
Publisher:
Springer
Weight:
503.49 gm

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