Download or read book Physicians at Work, Patients in Pain written by Kaja Finkler and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic study of how modern biomedicine works when it is exported to a developing country. Based on interviews with patients and physicians, and on personal observations, Finkler (anthropology, U. of North Carolina) discusses the problem doctors have in reconciling their training and the culture they practice in. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR