Physicians at Work, Patients in Pain Biomedical Practice and Patient Response in Mexico

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 speak for themselves in interviews and through the author's observations of doctor-patient encounters. The author concludes by discussing the significant problems for doctors in reconciling their training in biomedicine with the cultural dimensions of the society in which they practice.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780813311548
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	28 Feb 1991
DEWEY:	610.972
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	272
Weight:	-1g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm