Physicians at Work, Patients in Pain: Biomedical Practice and Patient Response in Mexico
Language: English
Published by Westview Press, Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford, 1991
- First Edition
- Softcover
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Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB
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xix+272 pages with tables, glossary and index. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. From the library of George M Foster. First edition. This ethnographic study offers a detailed and surprising picture of how modern bio-medicine is altered when practiced in a developing country. Addressing the question of therapeutic outcome, Kaja Finkler examines various aspects of bio-medicine that influence patient response, including specific components of the doctor-patient relationship. Her study sheds light on the ways in which bio-medicine is molded by cultural context and distinguishes and universal, culturally specific, and idiosyncratic components of medical beliefs and practices. Although the focus is on bio-medicine, this unique book also addresses the interplay between traditional healing and bio-medical treatment. Condition: Foster's stamp to half title page, spine sunned else a near fine copy.
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- Title
- Physicians at Work, Patients in Pain: Biomedical Practice and Patient Response in Mexico
- Author
- Finkler, Kaja (1935- ) from the library of Professor George M Foster
- Publisher
- Westview Press, Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0813311551
- ISBN 13
- 9780813311555
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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