| Description |
xxii, 281 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : An anthropological interpretation of American biomedical culture -- Medicine, value orientations, and their meanings -- Medical metaphors and their role in clinical decisionmaking and practice -- Medicine, moralism, and social control -- The influence of group dynamics on clinical thinking and practice -- Money and medicine : an identity problem -- Socialization and the process of becoming a physician -- The self of the physician : links between culture and personality -- Conclusion : Implications of an anthropological approach for the study, teaching, and practice of biomedicine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-269) |
| Subject |
Ethnology.
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Medicine -- United States.
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Medicine -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Social medicine -- United States.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Medicine.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
Stein, Margaret A.
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| LC no. |
89022711 |
| ISBN |
0813307376 (alk. paper) |
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