Differences in Medicine: Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies

Author/Contributor(s):	Berg, Marc
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	06/30/1998
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.