Medicine and Culture: Notions of Health and Sickness in Britain, the U.S., France and West Germany - Rilegato

Payer, Lynn

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0575045329 ISBN 13: 9780575045323

Casa editrice: Gollancz, 1989

Riassunto

This book argues that notions of health and disease are often determined more by culture than by science. Thus Americans, favouring action over reflection, are more likely to perform mastectomies and by-pass operations than the British. The Germans, harbouring a lingering romanticism, are preoccupied with their hearts, the French are guided by their Cartesian traditions and the British adopt an empirical approach, taking treatment only when its efficacy is clearly proven. The author pinpoints many other differences in clinical and psychiatric medicine and encourages individual responsiblity for health.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Gollancz
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0575045329
• ISBN 13: 9780575045323
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 204