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1 online resource (304 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: An Anthropological Interpretation of American Biomedical Culture; The Nature of Ethnographic Fieldwork; Authors Experience as Data Base; Medicine and Culture; Multiple Models in Biomedicine; The American Medical System and the Larger Culture; Notes; 1 Medicine, Value Orientations, and Their Meanings; Values: Basic Premises and Clinical Implications; The Sick Role and Its Associated Values; The Biomedical Value System; Therapeutic Activism |
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Control as a Value in MedicineGender Issues as Values in Medicine; Professional Role Identity: A Matter of Focus; 2 Medical Metaphors and Their Role in Clinical Decisionmaking and Practice; Cultural Metaphors in Medicine; Medical Metaphor as a Discourse of Control; Images in American Medicine: The Altar of High Tech; Disease as Metaphor; The Medicalization of Life; Notes; 3 Medicine, Moralism, and Social Control; Good Versus Bad Patients: The Moralistic Model; Mistaken Identity: Moralism in Patient Care; The Cultural Context of Medical Moralism |
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Body Narcissism: The Wellness Movement and Core American ValuesThe Paradox of Biomedicine as Cultural Therapy; 4 The Influence of Group Dynamics on Clinical Thinking and Practice; The Team Concept in Biomedicine; Medical Specialties: Us Versus Them; Clinical Decisionmaking: The Emotional Limitations of Groups; Leadership and Group Dynamics; The Mirror Image of Families in Groups; Groups as Human Bodies: A Focus of Anxiety; Cascades in Medicine: Group Action as Acting Out; 5 Money and Medicine: An Identity Problem; Front Versus Back: Identity Splitting in Medicine |
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Conflicting Priorities Within MedicineThe Sacred Shrine of the Bottom Line; Aggression: The Phantom in Medical Finance; Finance in Medicine: The Elusive ""Big Picture; 6 Socialization and the Process of Becoming a Physician; Paradoxes in Medical Training; Time: A Metacurriculum Within Medicine; Forgetting and Splitting as Tools of Professional Socialization; Excremental Symbolism in Biomedical Training; Pimping; 7 The Self of the Physician: Links Between Culture and Personality; Physician, Family, and Culture: Overlapping Contexts in Patient Care |
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The Unwelcome Incursion of the Past into the PresentForbidden Tools of the Self; Self and Clinical Role; Conclusion: Implications of an Anthropological Approach for the Study, Teaching, and Practice of Biomedicine; References; Index |
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Print version record |
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Social medicine -- United States
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Medicine -- United States -- Philosophy
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Ethnology.
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Social medicine.
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Anthropology, Cultural
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Medicine
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Sociology, Medical
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Ethnology
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Medicine -- Philosophy
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Social medicine
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Kulturanthropologie
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Medizin
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United States |
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United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429698613 |
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0429698615 |
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9780429718625 |
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0429718624 |
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