American Medicine As Culture

American Medicine As Culture
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9780429718625
ISBN-13 : 0429718624
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Book Synopsis American Medicine As Culture by : Howard F. Stein

Download or read book American Medicine As Culture written by Howard F. Stein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates biomedicine within American culture and argues that the very organization and practice of medicine are themselves cultural. It demonstrates the symbolic construction of clinical reality within American biomedicine and shows how biomedicine never leaves the realm of the personal.


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