American medicine as culture
Auteur :
Stein, Howard F.
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780367153069
Date de publication :
9 nov. 2020
Dimensions :
22,9 x 14,9 cm
Poids :
560 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.