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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.

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Língua Inglês ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 304 ● ISBN 9780429698613 ● Editora Taylor and Francis ● Publicado 2019 ● Carregável 3 vezes ● Moeda EUR ● ID 6930162 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM

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