Medicine and CultureMacmillan, 1996年11月15日 - 204 頁 A classic comparative study of medicine and national culture, Medicine and Culture shows us that while doctors regard themselves as servants of science, they are often prisoners of custom. |
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Is Medicine International? | 15 |
Culture Bias in Medical Science | 23 |
France Cartesian Thinking and the Terrain | 35 |
West Germany The Lingering Influences of Romanticism | 74 |
Great Britain Economy Empiricism and Keeping the Upper Lip Stiff | 101 |
United States The Virus in the Machine | 124 |
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第 xxiii 頁 - ... percent of all contemporary clinical interventions are supported by objective scientific evidence that they do more good than harm. On the other hand, between 40 and 60 percent of all therapeutic benefits can be attributed to a combination of the placebo and Hawthorne effects, two code words for caring and concern, or what most people call "love.