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 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. The Reader is essential reading for all medical students, physicians, and health care providers.
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"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)
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| Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Differences, and Inequalities |
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PART I Defining and Experiencing Differences |
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Physicians' Juries for Defective Babies |
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Blind, Deaf, and Pro-Eugenics: Helen Keller's Advice in Context |
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Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man |
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I Have Diabetes. Am I to Blame? |
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PART II Sickness amid Relationships |
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Twisted Lies: My Journey in an Imperfect Body |
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The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver |
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PART III Social Factors and Inequalities |
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"Doctors Don't Know Anything": The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health |
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Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It |
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Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility to Clinical Settings |
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The Social Determinants of Health: Coming of Age |
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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine |
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Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge |
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Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They? |
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Taking Race Out of Human Genetics: Engaging a Century-Long Debate about the Role of Race in Science |
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Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the United States of America: Evidence and Interventions |
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America's Hidden HIV Epidemic |
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Is the Prescription Opioid Epidemic a White Problem? |
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Understanding Associations between Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: Patterns and Prospects |
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Can Disparities Be Deadly? Controversial Research Explores Whether Living in an Unequal Society Can Make People Sick |
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Religion and Global Health |
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PART IV Politics, Institutions, and Care |
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Thinking through the Pain |
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Unfinished Journey: The Struggle over Universal Health Insurance in the United States |
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On Incarceration and Health: Reframing the Discussion |
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Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods |
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| About the Editors |
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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.
