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Physicians At Work, Patients In Pain Kaja Finkler

Physicians At Work, Patients In Pain By Kaja Finkler

Physicians At Work, Patients In Pain by Kaja Finkler

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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.

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

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

About Kaja Finkler

Kaja Finkler is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- The Setting -- The Mexican Context -- Sickness: A Mexican View -- Health Care Delivery in Mexico -- Biomedical Practice in Mexico -- History of Medicine in Mexico -- Biomedical Beliefs and Practices -- Variations in Biomedical Beliefs and Practices -- The Medical Consultation -- Patients' Responses to Biomedical Practice -- Patients and Their Complaints -- Patient-Perceived Therapeutic Outcomes: An Aggregate Analysis -- Patient-Perceived Therapeutic Outcomes: A Phenomenological Perspective -- Two Systems of Healing -- A Comparison Between Sacred Healing and Biomedicine -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Physicians at Work, Patients in Pain

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NLS9780367298364
9780367298364
0367298368
Physicians At Work, Patients In Pain: Biomedical Practice And Patient Response In Mexico by Kaja Finkler
Kaja Finkler
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-05-31
273
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