Health and Disease: A Reader

by Davey, Basiro; Gray, Alastair; Seale, Clive

• ISBN13: 9780335209675
• ISBN10: 033520967X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

Praise for Health and Disease: A Reader: "An extremely useful book - covering a wide variety of health-related topics from several perspectives...makes available many of the research findings, ideas and analyses that influence current thinking and debates in the field of health and disease." - The British Journal of Medical Psychology Health and disease have become major subjects for investigation, comment and debate. Health and Disease: A Reader is an interdisciplinary collection of articles which reflect the varied and sometimes controversial perspectives within these debates. Drawn from a wide range of sources, including the biomedical and social sciences, history, literature and lay accounts, these articles address all aspects of health and disease. Health and Disease: A Reader is: * the third edition of a best-selling and widely used textbook * revised and updated, with a range of new articles * a unique collection of articles, including extracts from 'classic' texts, specially commissioned articles and many articles which are often unavailable elsewhere * grouped into seven key areas, with editorial introductions which provide a context and guide to the main themes, the articles and their authors * the reader for Open University course U205 Health and Disease * specifically designed with the needs of students and teachers in mind * an essential teaching tool and resource Health and Disease: A Reader will be essential reading for all students and teachers of health studies, nursing, medicine, social policy, social work and sociology. It will also be of interest to researchers in the natural and social sciences, health care professionals, policy makers and analysts, and anyone interested in health, disease and health care.

Author Biography

Basiro Davey is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at the Department of Biological Sciences at the Open University.

Alastair Gray is Director of the Health Economics Research Centre, Institute of Health Sciences at the University of Oxford.

Clive Seale is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmith's College at the University of London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
General introduction	xv
Part 1 Cultural aspects of health, illness and healing
Introduction	1	(3)
Mirage of health	4	(6)
Rene Dubos
Hippocrates	10	(4)
Roy Porter
Feed a cold, starve a fever	14	(7)
Cecil Helman
What is health?	21	(7)
Mildred Blaxter
Illness as metaphor	28	(5)
Susan Sontag
The problem of the whole-person in holistic medicine	33	(4)
David Armstrong
Protecting a vulnerable margin: towards an analysis of how the mouth came to be separated from the body	37	(7)
Sarah Nettleton
Hysteria and demonic possession	44	(7)
Mary James
Cross-cultural psychiatry	51	(6)
Cecil Helman
Media and mental illness	57	(5)
Greg Philo
Public eyes and private genes	62	(10)
Peter Conrad
Part 2 Experiencing health, disease and health care
Introduction	69	(3)
Two accounts of mental distress	72	(4)
Mary O'Hagan
Being there The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health	76	(6)
The insanity of place	82	(5)
Erving Goffman
The social impact of childhood asthma	87	(6)
Andrew Nocon
Tim Booth
Beyond the disorder: one parent's reflection on genetic counselling	93	(4)
Ruth McGowan
Coping with migraine	97	(5)
Sally Macintyre
David Oldman
Using alternative therapies: marginal medicine and central concerns	102	(7)
Ursula M. Sharma
The social preservation of mind: the Alzheimer's disease experience	109	(4)
Jaber F. Gubrium
`Some bloody do-gooding cow'	113	(5)
Tony Parker
Pride against prejudice: `lives not worth living'	118	(4)
Jenny Morris
The stigma of infertility	122	(4)
Naomi Pfeffer
Identity dilemmas of chronically ill men	126	(6)
Kathy Charmaz
Costs of treating AIDS in Malawi and America	132	(9)
David Finkel
Thomas Garrett
Part 3 Influences on health and disease
Introduction	137	(4)
Health: 1844	141	(6)
Friedrich Engels
The health and wealth of nations	147	(4)
David E. Bloom
David Canning
Agriculture's two-edged sword	151	(9)
Jared Diamond
Climate and health	160	(1)
Paul R. Epstein
Deaths under 50 Medical Services Study Group	160	(4)
Prevention is better...	164	(6)
Helen Roberts
Susan Smith
Carol Bryce
Malingering	170	(4)
Richard Asher
Causes of declining life expectancy in Russia	174	(6)
Francis Notzon
The psychosocial causes of illness	180	(4)
Richard Wilkinson
Entitlement and deprivation	184	(6)
Jean Dreze
Amartya K. Sen
Why must I be a teenager at all?	190	(5)
Barry Bogin
Good gene, bad gene	195	(3)
James D. Watson
Biodemographic trajectories of longevity	198	(5)
James W. Vaupel
A new division of the life course	203	(7)
Peter Laslett
Part 4 The role of medicine
Introduction	207	(3)
The medical contribution	210	(9)
Thomas Mckeown
The importance of social intervention in Britain's mortality decline c. 1850-1914: a re-interpretation of the role of public health	219	(8)
Simon Szreter
Effectiveness and efficiency	227	(7)
A.L. Cochrane
Medicine matters after all	234	(8)
John P. Bunker
Ethical dilemmas in evaluation A Correspondence	242	(17)
The global eradication of smallpox	259	(5)
Marc A. Strassburg
The epidemics of modern medicine	264	(6)
Ivan Illich
The mode of state intervention in the health sector	270	(10)
Vicente Navarro
Part 5 The social context of health care
Introduction	277	(3)
Health inequalities and the health of the poor: what do we know? what can we do?	280	(6)
D.R. Gwatkin
Ageism in cardiology	286	(4)
Ann Bowling
Should smokers be offered coronary bypass surgery?	290	(3)
M.J. Underwood
J.S. Bailey
Matthew Shiu
Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't	293	(5)
David Sackett
Pubic participation in the evaluation of health care	298	(4)
Ray Fitzpatrick
Deena White
Health technology arid knowledge	302	(6)
Andy Alaszewski
Ian Harvey
Improving NHS performance: human behaviour and health policy	308	(5)
Chris Ham
Health sector reform: lessons from China	313	(6)
Gerald Bloom
Gu Xingyuan
The evolution of the health-care systems in the United States and the United Kingdom: similarities and differences	319	(7)
Rosemary Stevens
The role of the hospital in a changing environment	326	(10)
Martin Mckee
Judith Healy
Part 6 Health work
Introduction	333	(3)
The carer at home	336	(4)
Michael Young
Lesley Cullen
`We didn't want him to die on his own' - nurses' accounts of nursing dying patients	340	(6)
David Field
Professionalism and the conundrum of care	346	(6)
Celia Davies
Truth, trust and paternalism	352	(5)
Thurstan S. Brewin
Doctor knows best	357	(6)
Ann Oakley
Normal rubbish: deviant patients in casualty departments	363	(6)
Roger Jeffery
Food-work: maids in a hospital kitchen	369	(6)
Elizabeth Paterson
Professions allied to medicine: continuity and change in a complex workforce	375	(7)
Lesley Doyal
Ailsa Cameron
The village health worker: lackey or liberator?	382	(10)
David Werner
Part 7 Prospects and speculations
Introduction	389	(3)
The new globalization, food and health	392	(4)
Tim Lang
Global AIDS epidemic: time to turn the tide	396	(4)
Peter Piot
Doctor in the house: the Internet as a source of lay health knowledge and the challenge to expertise	400	(6)
Michael Hardey
Ageing and medicine	406	(5)
John Grimley Evans
Brave new world II	411	(3)
Tom Shakespeare
Exits	414	(6)
Sally Vincent
The shadow of genetic injustice	420	(5)
Benno Muller-Hill
The evolution of Utopia	425	(6)
Steve Jones
Spawn of Satan?	431	(2)
Nicola Griffith
The flesh	433	(5)
J. Desmond Bernal
Enough already! The pervasiveness of warnings in everyday life	438	(4)
Shulamit Reinharz
Name index	442	(5)
Subject index	447