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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Medical culture"”.
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THE SALIENCE OF MEDICAL CULTURE IN AMAZONIAN ECUADOR
This thesis explores the salience of medical culture in the Upper Amazon region of Ecuador. In particular, it will focus on the Quichua community of Venecia Derecha. The framework for this thesis is based on Murray Last's (1981,1992) concept of "medical culture," which he uses for all things …
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Change and Continuity of Yi Medical Culture in Southwest China
… of state-run health care service into their own medical systems. This work provides a comprehensive ethnographic account of health care practices in the two communities. Throughout this research, I examine the cultural and historical discrepancies which contribute to the different reactions …
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Pathways to inhumane care : medical culture in a South African emergency unit
… good quality health care, inhumane and abusive medical practices have, nevertheless, been documented internationally. A large and varied body of work documents multiple aspects of medical culture.
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The Role of Medicinal Plants in New Zealand's Settler Medical Culture, 1850s-1920s
… plants have been important components of medical practices in almost all cultures of the world. This thesis focuses specifically on the changing uses and understandings of medicinal plants in New Zealand‘s settler medical culture from 1850 to 1920. Using a wide range of source material, …
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PHYSICIAN'S EXPERIENCES WITH DEATH AND DYING: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
… adequate training in end-of-life care? Does the medical culture still see death as failure? How do they find meaning in end-of-life care? Using three different groups of physicians: early in career, mid-career, and retired, this research attempted to examine the phenomena of death and dying over …
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Context identification in electronic medical records
… to automate data extraction from electronic medical documents, it is important to identify the correct context of the extracted information. Context in medical documents is provided by the layout of documents, which are partitioned into sections by virtue of a medical culture instilled …
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Crossing out : transgender (in)visibility in twentieth-century culture
… twenty-first century, Crossing Out argues that medical theories of gender variance which emerge in the middle of the twentieth century are bound by the Cold-War–era discursive limits within which they were articulated, and that the ideological content of those theories persists into late-century …
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A Revised Model for Informed Consent in Predictive Genetic Testing
… (comprehension, disclosure, voluntariness): the culture of patient safety. That is, the revised model of consent enhances the traditional components of consent within a medical culture that emphasizes patient safety. This safety culture requires nationally established systems of accountability …
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The Realities of Fatigue for Pediatric Residents: A Qualitative Study
… of resources to mitigate fatigue risk in medical education. Furthermore, the findings challenge deeply rooted cultural norms within medicine that have historically hindered open discussion and action on addressing fatigue among trainees.