Main description:

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.

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 / Raul Necochea Lopez 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 Agenor, 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