OBJECTIVE: Studies of physicians’ professional development highlight the important effect
that the learning environment has in shaping student attitudes, behaviors, and values. The …

Throughout the United States and indeed the world, organizations have become places of
darkness, where emotional savagery and brutality are now commonplace and where …

Relationship-Centered Care acknowledges the central importance of relationships in medical
care. In a similar fashion, relationships hold a central position in medical education, and …

IN biology, the term "cascade" refers to a process that, once started, proceeds stepwise to its
full, seemingly inevitable, conclusion. Common examples are the clotting cascade and the …

In the now considerable literature on the patron-client relation (Eisenstadt and Roniger 1980;
Foster 1963; Gait 1973; Red 1973; Rozen 1980; Wolf 1966), one point of consensus is the f …

This book situates biomedicine within American culture and argues that the very organization
and practice of medicine are themselves cultural. It demonstrates the symbolic construction …

So much in our society is based on the importance of doing, achieving, striving, intervening,
and producing. In contrast, Listening Deeply attempts to re-establish listening and …

Family medicine has been in conflict about whether it is a specialty or a generalist discipline.
Although for a time the family was offered as a solution to family medicine being …

… share my own fascination with the content of Howard Stein's writings and with his unique and
… either in the public domain, or their copyright has reverted to the author, Howard F. Stein. …

This paper discusses alcoholism as an American cultural dis a stylized symptom that promotes
social integration through desecration. As a medical anthropologist trained and emplo …