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The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practice and the social processes through which they are produced are examined through the use of specific case studies. The essays provide examples of how various facets of 20th century medicine, including education, research, the creation of medical knowledge, the development and application of technology, and day to day medical practice, are pervaded by a value system characteristic of an industrial-capitalistic view of the world in which the idea that science represents an objective and value free body of knowledge is dominant.
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Lock, M. (1988). Introduction. In: Lock, M., Gordon, D. (eds) Biomedicine Examined. Culture, Illness and Healing, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2725-4_1
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