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Biomedical Practice
biomedical practice in developing countries
biomedical therapeutics
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Child's Sickness
clinical practice
cross-cultural medicine
Cupping Treatments
Doctor Patient Encounter
Doctor's Sense
ENT Specialist
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ethnographic research
Etiological Beliefs
Etiological Explanations
Folk Attributions
Healer Patient Encounter
health care systems
IMSS
Iron Gates
Life's Lesions
Los Locos
medical anthropology
Mexican Medicine
Mexican Physicians
Mexico's historical tradition
Neighborhood Health Centers
Outpatient Clinic
patient experience Mexico
patients' responses
Pelvic Congestion Syndrome
Sacred Healing
Sought Treatment
Spanish Medicine
Spiritualist Healers
Technological Medical Activities
therapeutic outcomes
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367298364
- Weight: 412g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This ethnographic study offers a detailed picture of how modern biomedicine is altered when practised in a developing country. Addressing the question of therapeutic outcome, Dr Finkler examines various aspects of biomedicine that influence patient response. The doctor-patient relationship is seen as especially important. Physicians and patients sp
Kaja Finkler is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
