The social medicine reader. Volume 2 Differences and inequalities

Buchbinder, Mara, (editor.). Churchill, Larry R., 1945- (editor.). Estroff, Sue E., (editor.). King, Nancy M. P., (editor.). Oberlander, Jonathan, (editor.). Saunders, Barry F., 1959- (editor.). Strauss, Ronald P., (editor.). Walker, Rebecca L., (editor.).

Summary: 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 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.

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ISBN: 9781478002826
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 351 pages) : illustrations
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Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Copyright: �2019

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General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Differences, and Inequalities / Sue E. Estroff, Gail E. Henderson -- Defining and Experiencing Differences. Beyond Medicalisation / Nikolas Rose ; On Being a Cripple / Nancy Mairs ; What You Mourn / Sheila Black ; Physicians' Juries for Defective Babies / Helen Keller ; Blind, Deaf, and Pro-Eugenics : Helen Keller's Advice in Context / Ra�ul Necochea L�opez ; Tell Me, Tell Me / Irving Kenneth Zola ; Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man / Raymond Luczak ; I Have Diabetes : Am I to Blame? / Rivers Solomon -- Sickness amid Relationships. Twisted Lies : My Journey in an Imperfect Body / Sherri G. Morris ; Raising a Woman / Mary Stainton ; The Sick Wife / Jane Kenyon ; The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver / Carol Levine ; Fathers and Sons / David Mason ; Parents Support Group / Dick Allen -- Social Factors and Inequalities. "Doctors Don't Know Anything" : The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health / Seth M. Holmes ; Anthropology in the Clinic : The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It / Arthur Kleinman, Peter Benson ; Beyond Cultural Competence : Applying Humility to Clinical Settings / Linda M. Hunt ; The Racist Patient / Sachin H. Jain ; The Social Determinants of Health : Coming of Age / Paula Braveman, Susan Egerter, David R. Williams ; Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine / Paul E. Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, Salmaan Keshavjee ; Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism : Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge / Jonathan M. Metzl, Dorothy E. Roberts ; 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, Alexandra E. Shields ; Taking Race Out of Human Genetics : Engaging a Century-Long Debate about the Role of Race in Science / Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob DeSalle, Sarah Tishkoff ; Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the United States of America : Evidence and Interventions / Zinzi D. Bailey, Nancy Krieger, Madina Ag�enor, Jasmine Graves, Natalia Linos, Mary T. Bassett ; America's Hidden HIV Epidemic / Linda Villarosa ; Is the Prescription Opioid Epidemic a White Problem? / Helena Hansen, Julie Netherland ; Understanding Associations between Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health : Patterns and Prospects / David R. Williams, Naomi Priest, Norman Anderson ; Can Disparities Be Deadly? : Controversial Research Explores Whether Living in an Unequal Society Can Make People Sick / Emily Underwood ; Religion and Global Health / Peter J. Brown -- Politics, Institutions, and Care. Thinking through the Pain / Keith Wailoo ; Unfinished Journey : The Struggle Over Universal Health Insurance in the United States / Jonathan Oberlander ; On Incarceration and Health : Reframing the Discussion / Rahul Vanjani ; Bioexpectations : Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods / Peter Redfield.
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