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

By Howard Waitzkin

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300049498
• ISBN13: 9780300049497
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"