Physicians At Work, Patients In Pain: Biomedical Practice And Patient Response In Mexico
ISBN: 9780429301650
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Social Sciences; Anthropology;

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

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

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