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Sociomedical Perspectives on Patient Care /

Social change has placed new demands on the practice of medicine, altering almost every aspect of patient care relationships. Just as medicine was encouraged to embrace the biological sciences some 100 years ago, recent directives indicate the importance of the social sciences in understanding biome...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Allman, Richard M., 1955- (Editor ), Clair, Jeffrey M., 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1993]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Social change has placed new demands on the practice of medicine, altering almost every aspect of patient care relationships. Just as medicine was encouraged to embrace the biological sciences some 100 years ago, recent directives indicate the importance of the social sciences in understanding biomedical practice. Humanistic challenges call for changes in curative and technological imperatives. In this book, social scientists contribute to such challenges by using social evidence to indicate appropriate new goals for health care in a changing environment.This book was designed to stimulate and.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813158433