Overview

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.

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Author:   Jonathan Oberlander ,  Mara Buchbinder ,  Larry R. Churchill ,  Sue E. Estroff
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Edition:   Third Edition, New edition
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781478002819

ISBN 10:   1478002816
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   31 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface to the Third Edition  ix Introduction  1 Part I. Experiences of Illness and Clinician-Patient Relationships Silver Water / Amy Bloom  7 ""Is She Experiencing any Pain?"": Disability and the Physician-Patient Relationship / S. K. Toombs  15 The Cost of Appearances / Arthur Frank  20 The Ship Pounding / Donald Hall  25 God at the Bedside / Jerome Groopman  27 The Use of Force / William Carlos Williams  32 Sunday Dialogue: Conversations between Doctor and Patient / Rebecca Dresser  36 What the Doctor Said / Raymond Carver  42 Part II. Professionalism and the Culture of Medicine The Learning Curve / Atul Gawande  45 The Perfect Code / Terrence Holt  63 Coeur d'Alene / Richard B. Weinberg  78 The ""Worthy"" Patient: Rethinking the ""Hidden Curriculum"" in Medical Education / Robin T. Higashi, Allison Tillack, Michael A. Steinman, C. Bree Johnston, and G. Michael Harper  82 How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgement and the Practice of Medicine / Kathryn Montgomery  95 Healing Skills for Medical Practice / Larry R. Churchill and David Schenck  101 The Hair Stylist, the Corn Merchant, and the Doctor: Ambiguously Altruistic / Lois Shepherd  111 Necessary Accessories / Nusheen Ameenuddin  127 The Critical Vocation of the Essay / Barry F. Saunders  132 The Art of Medicine: Asthma and the Value of Contradictions/ Ian Whitmarsh  140 Script / Mara Buchbinder and Dragana Lassiter  145 Ordinary Medicine: The Power and Confusion of Evidence / Sharon R. Kaufman  149 ""Ethics and Clinical Research"": The 50th Anniversary of Beecher's Bombshell / David S. Jones, Christine Grady, and Susan E. Lederer  154 Part III. Health Care Ethics and the Clinician's Role Glossary of Basic Ethical Concepts in Health Care and Research / Nancy M. P. King  167 Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions / Larry R. Churchill, Nancy M. P. King, David Schenck, and Rebecca L. Walker  175 Historical and Contemporary Codes of Ethics: The Hippocratic Oath, the Prayer of Maimonides, the Declaration of Geneva, and the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics  191 Enduring and Emerging Challenges of Informed Consent / Christine Grady  197 Teaching the Tyranny of the Form: Informed Consent in Person and on Paper / Katie Watson  212 A Terrifying Truth / Rebecca Dresser  218 The Lie / Lawrence D. Grouse  222 Discharge Decisions and the Dignity of Risk / Debjani Mukherjee  224 No One Needs to Know / Neil S. Calman  229 Part IV. Death, Dying, and Lives at the Margins Forty Years of Work on End-of-Life Care: From Patients' Rights to Systemic Reform / Susan M. Wolf, Nancy Berlinger, and Bruce Jennings  239 Try to Remember Some Details / Yehuda Amichai  249 Failing to Thrive? / Kim Sue  251 The Dead Donor Rule and Organ Transplantation / Robert D. Truog and Franklin G. Miller  259 The Darkening Veil of ""Do Everything"" / Chris Feudtner and Wynne Morrison  263 Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making / Timothy E. Quill  267 Active and Passive Euthanasia / James A. Rachels  273 Clinician-Patient Interactions about Requests for Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Patient and Family View / Anthony L. Back, Helene Starks, Clarissa Hsu, Judith R. Gordon, Ashok Bharucha, and Robert A. Pearlman  280 My Father's Death / Susan M. Wolf  301 Part V. Allocation and Justice Glossary: Justice and the Allocation of Health Resources / Rebecca L. Walker and Larry R. Churchill  311 Dead Man Walking / Michael Stillman and Monalisa Tailor  316 Full Disclosure: Out-of-Pocket Costs as Side Effects / Peter A. Ubel, Amy P. Abernethy, and S. Yousuf Zafar  320 Seven Sins of Humanitarian Medicine / David R. Welling, James M. Ryan, David G. Burris, and Norman M. Rich  325 Who Should Receive Life Support during a Public Health Emergency? Using Ethical Principles to Improve Allocation Design / Douglas B. White, Mitchell H. Katz, John M. Luce, and Bernard Lo  335 About the Editors  353 Index  355  "

Reviews

A must-read for health care professionals, these readings are provocative and invite critical social and moral analysis among health care professionals. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. -- B. A. D'Anna * Choice *

Author Information

Jonathan Oberlander is Professor and Chair of Social Medicine and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Mara Buchbinder is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Larry R. Churchill is Professor of Medical Ethics Emeritus at Vanderbilt University. Sue E. Estroff is Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Nancy M. P. King is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine. Barry F. Saunders is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and holds adjunct appointments in Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Ronald P. Strauss is Dental Friends Distinguished Professor of Dental Ecology and Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Rebecca L. Walker is Professor of Social Medicine, Core Faculty in the Center for Bioethics, and holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Philosophy, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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