The Politics of Medical Encounters: How Patients and Doctors Deal With Social Problems
Book Details
Author(s)
Howard Waitzkin
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0300055110
ISBN-13
9780300055115
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Sales Rank
#1,975,661
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Examining the interactions between patients and doctors, this book aims to show how physicians' focus on physical complaints often fails to address patients' underlying concerns and also reinforces the societal problems that cause or aggravate these maladies.
