New bottles, old wine: Hidden cultural assumptions in a computerized explanation system for migraine sufferers

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 551-574

  Forsythe, Diana E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intelligent systems; Medical computing; Medical informatics; Migraine; Patient education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TEACHING;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREJUDICE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 0030333020     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1996.10.4.02a00100     Document Type: Article

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