Plague doctors : responding to the AIDS epidemic in France and America

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    • Feldman, Jamie L.

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Plague doctors : responding to the AIDS epidemic in France and America

Jamie L. Feldman

Bergin & Garvey, 1995

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-264) and index

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Plague Doctors highlights culturally based differences between French and American medicine, not only in health care delivery, but in the way each system constructs the interaction between disease and the human body. This work challenges the assumption that biomedicine is uniform across the western world. The author, a medical doctor and anthropologist, provides an ethnographic look into the daily experiences of physicians and researchers, examining how members of the French and American medical communities construct their models of AIDS through discourse and practice. The book is based on a comparative study of two AIDS clinics, one in Chicago and the other in Paris. Participant observation conducted at the clinics and interviews with physicians and researchers outside the sites yielded important insights into the world of AIDS medicine.

目次

Introduction Theory, Method and Context Cultural Construction--Choosing Among Stories Surveying the Contextual Ground Constructing AIDS The Building Blocks of AIDS The Stories of AIDS--Natural History and Staging Treatment Paradoxes and Patients' Stories AIDS as Constructor AIDS Bodies, AIDS Patients Health Care and Medical Practice Good Science, Bad Science Identity and the AIDS Doctor Medical Differences, Different Medicines The French Are Different: French and American Medicine in the Context of AIDS Conclusions Appendix: Statistical Description of Informants Glossary of Terms Bibliography Index

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