Culture Matters In Medicine Acceptance And Public Health

It's great to insist that people should just accept science and medicine but it isn't really practical. The nature of coastal California is that they don't trust vaccines the way religious people in the American south do, Asians are going to believe in acupucture, and the French will think they can be allergic to Bt genetically modified plants but not Bt organic pesticide spray. Historically, culture has been considered an impediment to health rather than a central determining feature of it. However, a new paper in read more

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