Fragile castles: The paradox of research politics, scientific progress, and the mutation of medical knowledge

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-367

  Roushdy Hammady, Iman ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Doctor cancer patient relationship; Europe; Local global research politics; Personal experience and anthropologist's subjectivity; Turkey; United states

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; ERIONITE; ZEOLITE;

AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIGRATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PLEURA TUMOR; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SWEDEN; TIME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC RESEARCH; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; NARRATION; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; TURKEY; ZEOLITES;

EID: 16644387144     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MEDI.0000046427.59991.cb     Document Type: Review

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