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Biomedicine Examined

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Table of Contents

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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
Attention for Chapter 3: Tenacious Assumptions in Western Medicine
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Chapter title
Tenacious Assumptions in Western Medicine
Chapter number 3
Book title
Biomedicine Examined
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 1988
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-2725-4_3
Book ISBNs
978-1-55608-072-2, 978-9-40-092725-4
Authors

Deborah R. Gordon, Gordon, Deborah R.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 4%
Canada 2 2%
Unknown 79 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 20%
Student > Bachelor 14 17%
Researcher 11 13%
Student > Master 10 12%
Other 6 7%
Other 15 18%
Unknown 11 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 36 43%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 15%
Arts and Humanities 5 6%
Psychology 4 5%
Computer Science 2 2%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 13 15%

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