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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Relationships between society, culture, and biomedicine / Margaret Lock and Deborah R. Gordon -- Tenacious assumptions in Western medicine / Deborah R. Gordon -- Mind and body as metaphors / Laurence J. Kirmayer -- Psyche, soma, and society : the social construction of psychosomatic disorders / Cecil G. Helman -- Medical students and the cadaver in social and cultural context / Joseph W. Lella and Dorothy Pawluch -- Patients, physicians and context : medical care in the home / Andrea Sankar -- Discourse, descriptions and diagnoses : reproducing normal medicine / Paul Atkinson -- Space and time in British general practice / David Armstrong -- Thinking prevention : concepts and constructs in general practice / Anthony Williams and Mary Boulton -- Clinical science and clinical expertise / Deborah R. Gordon -- Babyhood : the social construction of infant care as a medical problem in England in the years around 1900 / Peter W.G. Wright -- Menopause as procsess or event / Patricia Kaufert -- On the boundary oflife and death : the definition of dying by medical residents / Jessica H. Muller and Barbara A. Koenig