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• Textbioethicsdecision making

  Anthropology, bioethics, and medicine: A provocative trilogy

  Investigates the contributions anthropological perspectives can make to the field of bioethics.
  Concludes with a discussion of ways that anthropological methods and knowledge can be applied in the bioethics arena.
• Textanesthesiadecision making...1 more

  Changes in clinical practice in response to reductions in reimbursement: Physician autonomy and resistance to bureaucratization

  Examines the process of joint decision making between cardiothoracic surgeons and anesthesiologists in a U.S. hospital as they made changes in clinical practice in response to reimbursement reductions.
• Textacute illnessdecision making

  Decision making in the treatment of acute illness in nursing homes: Framing the decision problem, treatment plan, and outcome

  Investigates the social-cultural factors and other circumstances that influence decision making in the treatment of acute illness in three West Coast nursing homes.
• Textdecision makingelderly

  Physicians' norms and health care decisions of elderly Medicare recipients

  Examines, in a two-step analysis, the degree to which health care decisions made by elderly Medicare recipients coincide with the norms of physicians using theory and methods from cognitive anthropology.
• Still Imagedecision makinghealth behavior

  Studying knowledge, culture, and behavior in applied medical anthropology

  Argues that the concept of knowledge, as utilized by public health professionals, is best regarded as cultural belief, as defines in anthropology.
• Textdecision makingdecision models

  On the rationality of decision making studies: Part 2: Divergent rationalities

• Textdecision makingdecision models

  On the rationality of decision making studies: Part 1: Decision models of treatment choice

  Examines the theoretical and methodological grounding of anthropological research on medical decision making with reference to both critiques and empirical studies.