Physicians At Work, Patients In Pain

Biomedical Practice And Patient Response In Mexico

• Author(s): Kaja Finkler,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 273
• ISBN_10: 100030325X
  ISBN_13: 9781000303254
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / Physician & Patient , Social Science / Anthropology / General ,

Description:... 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