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

by Kaja Finkler

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. The doctor-patient relationship is seen as especially important. Physicians and patients sp

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000303254
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/04/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	273
File size:	1 MB

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

Editorial Reviews

An ethnographic study of how modern biomedicine works when it is exported to a developing country. Based on interviews with patients and physicians, and on personal observations, Finkler (anthropology, U. of North Carolina) discusses the problem doctors have in reconciling their training and the culture they practice in. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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