American Medicine As Culture
| By: | Howard F. Stein |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780367153069 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780429718625 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1990 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.