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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.

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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:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781478001744

ISBN 10:   1478001747
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   31 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface to the Third Edition  ix Introduction  1 Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Differences, and Inequalities / Sue E. Estroff and Gail E. Henderson  3 Part I. Defining and Experiencing Differences Beyond Medicalisation / Nikolas Rose  31 On Being a Cripple / Nancy Mairs  37 What You Mourn / Sheila Black  48 Physicians' Juries for Defective Babies / Helen Keller  50 Blind, Deaf, and Pro-Eugenics: Helen Keller's Advice in Context / Raúl Necochea López  52 Tell Me, Tell Me / Irving Kenneth Zola  54 Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man / Raymond Luczak  61 I Have Diabetes. Am I to Blame? / Rivers Solomon  62 Part II. Sickness amid Relationships Twisted Lies: My Journey in an Imperfect Body / Sherri G. Morris  67 Raising a Woman / Mary Stainton  78 The Sick Wife / Jane Kenyon  83 The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver / Carol Levine  84 Fathers and Sons / David Mason  92 Parents Support Group / Dick Allen  93 Part III. Social Factors and Inequalities ""Doctors Don't Know Anything"": The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health / Seth M. Holmes  97 Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It / Arthur Kleinman and Peter Benson  116 Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility to Clinical Settings / Linda M. Hunt  127 The Racist Patient / Sachin H. Jain  132 The Social Determinants of Health: Coming of Age / Paul Braverman, Susan Egerter, and David R. Williams  134 Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine / Paul E. Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshaviee  156 Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge / Jonathan M. Metzl and Dorthy E. Roberts  170 Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They? / Lundy Braun, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Duana Fullwiley, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Alondra Nelson, William Quivers, Susan M. Reverby, and Alexandra E. Shields  188 Taking Race Out of Human Genetics: Engaging a Century-Long Debate about the Role of Race in Science / Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob DeSalle, and Sarah Tishkoff  204 Structural Racism and Health Inequalities in the United States of America: Evidence and Interventions / Zinzi D. Bailey, Nancy Krieger, Madina Agénor, Jasmine Graves, Natalia Linos, and Mary T. Bassett  209 America's Hidden HIV Epidemic / Linda Villarosa  235 Is the Prescription Opioid Epidemic a White Problem? / Helena Hansen and Julie Netherland  254 Understanding Associations between Race, Socioeconomic Status and Health: Patterns and Prospects / David R. Williams, Naomi Priest, and Norman Anderson  258 Can Disparities Be Deadly? Controversial Research Explores Whether Living in an Unequal Society Can Make People Sick / Emily Underwood  268 Religion and Global Health / Peter J. Brown  275 Part IV. Politics, Institutions, and Care Thinking through the Pain / Keith Wailoo  297 Unfinished Journey: The Struggle over Universal Health Insurance in the United States / Jonathan Oberlander  305 On Incarceration and Health: Reframing the Discussion / Rahul Vanjani  314 Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods / Peter Redfield  318 About the Editors  341 Index  343"

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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