ABSTRACT
This ethnographic study offers a detailed picture of how modern biomedicine is altered when practised in a developing country. Addressing the question of therapeutic outcome, Dr Finkler examines various aspects of biomedicine that influence patient response. The doctor-patient relationship is seen as especially important. Physicians and patients sp
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One
The Setting
part Two|103 pages
Biomedical Practice in Mexico
part Three|56 pages
Patients' Responses to Biomedical Practice
part Four|18 pages
Two Systems of Healing