Physicians at work, patients in pain : biomedical practice and patient response in Mexico /: biomedical practice and patient response in Mexico. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kaja Finkler.
• Other Names: Finkler, Kaja
• 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
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (273 pages)
• Subjects: 610/.972; Social medicine -- Mexico; Medical care -- Mexico; Physician and patient -- Mexico; Patients -- Mexico -- Attitudes; Anthropology, Cultural; Health Services, Indigenous; Medicine, Traditional; Patient Acceptance of Health Care -- ethnology; Physician-Patient Relations; Medical care; Patients -- Attitudes; Physician and patient; Social medicine; Medizin; Volksmedizin; Ärztliche Versorgung; Akzeptanz; Patient; Mexico -- ethnology; Mexico; Mexiko
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000303254
• Related ISBNs: 100030325X
• 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.