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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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Språk Engelska ● Formatera PDF ● Sidor 304 ● ISBN 9780429698613 ● Utgivare Taylor and Francis ● Publicerad 2019 ● Nedladdningsbara 3 gånger ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6930162 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM

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