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Physicians of Western Medicine
. Ed(S): Hahn, Robert A.; Gaines, Atwood D.
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Description for Physicians of Western Medicine
Paperback. Editor(s): Hahn, Robert A.; Gaines, Atwood D. Series: Culture, Illness & Healing. Num Pages: 345 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMP; M; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 590.
After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about her or his taken-for-granted commonsense (therefore cultural) understanding of medicine. The editors and their collaborators show the medical leviathan, warts and all, for what it is: changing, pluralistic, problematic, powerful, provocative. What medicine proclaims itself to be - unified, scientific, biological and not social, non-judgmental - it is shown not to resemble very much. Those matters about which medicine keeps fairly silent, it turns out, come closer to being central ... Read more
After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about her or his taken-for-granted commonsense (therefore cultural) understanding of medicine. The editors and their collaborators show the medical leviathan, warts and all, for what it is: changing, pluralistic, problematic, powerful, provocative. What medicine proclaims itself to be - unified, scientific, biological and not social, non-judgmental - it is shown not to resemble very much. Those matters about which medicine keeps fairly silent, it turns out, come closer to being central ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
345
Condition
New
Series
Culture, Illness & Healing
Number of Pages
345
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789027718815
SKU
V9789027718815
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Reviews for Physicians of Western Medicine
`This book contains some excellent teaching materials for students in anthropology as well as medicine. For practioners of both disciplines, it will surely stimulate discussion about the nature of biomedicine and the ability of anthropology to comprehend it.' American Anthropology (December 1986) `The authors of this collection are to be congratulated for ... Read more