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

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

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

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

by Kaja Finkler

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367282905
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/27/2019
Pages: 273
Product dimensions: 5.81(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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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