American medicine as culture. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Howard F. Stein ; with the editorial assistance of Margaret A. Stein.
• Other Names: Stein, Howard F; Stein, Margaret A
• Contents: Introduction : An anthropological interpretation of American biomedical culture -- Medicine, value orientations, and their meanings -- Medical metaphors and their role in clinical decisionmaking and practice -- Medicine, moralism, and social control -- The influence of group dynamics on clinical thinking and practice -- Money and medicine : an identity problem -- Socialization and the process of becoming a physician -- The self of the physician : links between culture and personality -- Conclusion : Implications of an anthropological approach for the study, teaching, and practice of biomedicine.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.4/61/093; 306.4/61/0973; Social medicine -- United States; Medicine -- United States -- Philosophy; Anthropology, Cultural; Medicine; Sociology, Medical; Médecine sociale -- États-Unis; Médecine -- États-Unis -- Philosophie; Medicine -- Philosophy; Social medicine; Kulturanthropologie; Medizin; United States; United States; USA; USA
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429718625; 0429718624
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.