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Differences in Medicine : Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies
by Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol
Overview
Western medicine is widely thought of as a coherent and unified field in which beliefs, definitions, and judgments are shared. This book debunks this myth with an interdisciplinary and intercultural collection of essays that reveals the significantly varied ways practitioners of "conventional" Western medicine handle bodies, study test results, configure statistics, and converse with patients.
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- ISBN-13: 9780822321743
- ISBN-10: 0822321742
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publish Date: June 1998
- Dimensions: 9.28 x 5.9 x 0.85 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.01 pounds
- Page Count: 288
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