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Biomedicine Examined

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Relationships between Society, Culture, and Biomedicine: An Introduction to the Essays
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    Chapter 3 Tenacious Assumptions in Western Medicine
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    Chapter 4 Mind and Body as Metaphors: Hidden Values in Biomedicine
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    Chapter 5 Psyche, Soma, and Society: The Social Construction of Psychosomatic Disorders
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    Chapter 6 Medical Students and the Cadaver in Social and Cultural Context
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    Chapter 7 Patients, Physicians and Context: Medical Care in the Home
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    Chapter 8 Discourse, Descriptions and Diagnoses: Reproducing Normal Medicine
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    Chapter 9 Space and Time in British General Practice
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    Chapter 10 Thinking Prevention: Concepts and Constructs in General Practice
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    Chapter 11 Clinical Science and Clinical Expertise: Changing Boundaries between Art and Science in Medicine
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    Chapter 12 Babyhood: The Social Construction of Infant Care as a Medical Problem in England in the Years Around 1900
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    Chapter 13 Menopause as Process or Event: The Creation of Definitions in Biomedicine
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    Chapter 14 On the Boundary of Life and Death: The Definition of Dying by Medical Residents
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    Chapter 15 A Nation at Risk: Interpretations of School Refusal in Japan
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    Chapter 16 Medical Practice in Response to a Folk Illness: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Nervios in Costa Rica
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    Chapter 17 Physicians and the Disclosure of Undesirable Information
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    Chapter 18 The Technological Imperative in Medical Practice: The Social Creation of a “Routine” Treatment
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    Chapter 19 The Social Construction of a Machine: Ritual, Superstition, Magical Thinking and other Pragmatic Responses to Running a CT Scanner
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Chapter title
The Social Construction of a Machine: Ritual, Superstition, Magical Thinking and other Pragmatic Responses to Running a CT Scanner
Chapter number 19
Book title
Biomedicine Examined
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 1988
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-2725-4_19
Book ISBNs
978-1-55608-072-2, 978-9-40-092725-4
Authors

Stephen R. Barley, Barley, Stephen R.

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Country Count As %
United States 4 11%
Canada 1 3%
Brazil 1 3%
Unknown 31 84%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 41%
Student > Master 6 16%
Researcher 5 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Professor 2 5%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 4 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 13 35%
Social Sciences 5 14%
Computer Science 4 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 5%
Design 2 5%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 6 16%