The social medicine reader

The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling 'Social Medicine Reader' provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.0Volume 2, 'Differences and Inequalities', explores the fundamental sociocultural, socioeconomic, and racial dimensions that shape health differences and inequalities. These include social and cultural influences on the meanings of health, illness, and disease; social factors in the development of biomedical knowledge and systems of care; and structural explanations for why some social groups experience disproportionate burdens of disease and differences in treatment.00Volume 1 - Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine: 9781478001737 (hbk.) / 9781478002819 (pbk.)0Volume 2 - Differences and Inequalities: 9781478001744 (hbk.) / 9781478002826 (pbk.)

The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. Volume 1, Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine, contains essays, case studies, narratives, fiction, and poems that focus on the experiences of illness and of clinician-patient relationships. Among other topics the contributors examine the roles and training of professionals alongside the broader cultures of biomedicine; health care; experiences and decisions regarding death, dying, and struggling to live; and particular manifestations of injustice in the broader health system. The Reader is essential reading for all medical students, physicians, and health care providers.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Differences, and Inequalities -- Beyond Medicalisation -- On Being a Cripple -- What You Mourn -- Physicians' Juries for Defective Babies -- Blind, Deaf, and Pro-Eugenics: Helen Keller's Advice in Context -- Tell Me, Tell Me -- Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man -- I Have Diabetes. Am I to Blame? -- Twisted Lies: My Journey in an Imperfect Body -- Raising a Woman -- The Sick Wife -- The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver -- Fathers and Sons -- Parents Support Group -- "Doctors Don't Know Anything": The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health -- Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It -- Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility to Clinical Settings -- The Racist Patient -- The Social Determinants of Health: Coming of Age -- Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine -- Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge -- Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They? -- Taking Race Out of Human Genetics: Engaging a Century-Long Debate about the Role of Race in Science -- Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the United States of America: Evidence and Interventions -- America's Hidden HIV Epidemic -- Is the Prescription Opioid Epidemic a White Problem? -- Understanding Associations between Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: Patterns and Prospects -- Can Disparities Be Deadly? Controversial Research Explores Whether Living in an Unequal Society Can Make People Sick -- Religion and Global Health -- Thinking through the Pain -- Unfinished Journey: The Struggle over Universal Health Insurance in the United States -- On Incarceration and Health: Reframing the Discussion -- Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods -- About the Editors -- Index

The Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- Part I. Experiences of Illness and Clinician-Patient Relationships -- Silver Water -- "Is She Experiencing Any Pain?" -- The Cost of Appearances -- The Ship Pounding -- God at the Bedside -- The Use of Force -- Sunday Dialogue -- What the Doctor Said -- Part II. Professionalism and the Culture of Medicine -- The Learning Curve -- The Perfect Code -- Coeur d'Alene -- The "Worthy" Patient -- How Doctors Think -- Healing Skills for Medical Practice -- The Hair Stylist, the Corn Merchant, and the Doctor -- Necessary Accessories -- The Critical Vocation of the Essay -- The Art of Medicine -- Script -- Ordinary Medicine -- " Ethics and Clinical Research" -- Part III. Health Care Ethics and the Clinician's Role -- Glossary of Basic Ethical Concepts in Health Care and Research -- Ethics in Medicine -- Historical and Contemporary Codes of Ethics -- Enduring and Emerging Challenges of Informed Consent -- Teaching the Tyranny of the Form -- A Terrifying Truth -- The Lie -- Discharge Decisions and the Dignity of Risk -- No One Needs to Know -- Part IV. Death, Dying, and Lives at the Margins -- Forty Years of Work on End-of- Life Care -- Try to Remember Some Details -- Failing to Thrive? -- The Dead Donor Rule and Organ Transplantation -- The Darkening Veil of "Do Everything" -- Death and Dignity -- Active and Passive Euthanasia -- Clinician-Patient Interactions about Requests for Physician-Assisted Suicide -- My Father's Death -- Part V. Allocation and Justice -- Glossary -- Dead Man Walking -- Full Disclosure -- Seven Sins of Humanitarian Medicine -- About the Editors -- Index

The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.

The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.