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Howard Waitzkin
320 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300049497
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: Not specified
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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 origin. In this book, physician/sociologist How...
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Howard Waitzkin
320 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300049497
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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 origin. In this book, physician/sociologist How...