Physicians At Work, Patients In Pain: Biomedical Practice And Patient Response In Mexico

Finkler, Kaja

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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. The doctor-patient relationship is seen as especially important. Physicians and patients sp

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Book information

ISBN:	9780367298364
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	31 May 2021
DEWEY:	362.10972
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	273
Weight:	412g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	20mm