American Medicine As Culture

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American Medicine As Culture

Author	: Howard F. Stein
File Size	: 44,5 Mb
Publisher	: Routledge
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 March 2019
ISBN	: 9780429718625
Pages	: 309 pages

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American Medicine As Culture by Howard F. Stein Book PDF Summary

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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