The Politics of Medical Encounters: How Patients and Doctors Deal With Social Problems by Howard Waitzkin
The Politics of Medical Encounters: How Patients and Doctors Deal With Social Problems

Howard Waitzkin

The Politics of Medical Encounters: How Patients and Doctors Deal With Social Problems

Howard Waitzkin

320 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction health challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The complaints that patients bring to their doctors often have roots in social issues that involve work, family life, gender roles and sexuality, aging, substance use; or other problems of nonmedical origin. In this book, physician/sociologist How...

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