Biomedicine Examined

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Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1556080727
Category: Medical

Biomedicine Examined (Culture, Illness and Healing)

This collection of essays explores the social and cultural bases of biomedical knowledge and practices through which this knowledge is constructed. Download Biomedicine Examined medical books for free.
The case studies reveal hidden values within biomedicine and illustrate how it is a product of, and varies according to, particular social and cultural contexts and historical traditions. Topics addressed include how medical knowledge, perception, and practice is produced, reproduced, and changed; how distress, life cycle processes and medical technology are incorporated into the medical domain in both Western and non- Western societies; and how medicine routinizes extraordinary issues and events. Together the essays challenge the claim that biomedicine is autonomous from the social and cultural Get Biomedicine Examined our bestseller medical books.

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The case studies reveal hidden values within biomedicine and illustrate how it is a product of, and varies according to, particular social and cultural contexts and historical traditions Together the essays challenge the claim that biomedicine is autonomous from the social and cultural

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