Health and Health Care As Social Problems

by Conrad, Peter; Leiter, Valerie; Armstrong, Elizabeth M.; Betz, Michael; Broadhead, Robert S.; Dull, Diana; Fielding, Stephen L.; Friedman, Samuel R.; Gamson, Josh; Haines, Herb; Hufbauer, Karl; Johnson, Michael P.; Klawiter, Maren; McCrea, Frances B.; Mor

• ISBN13: 9780742528574
• ISBN10: 074252857X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Medicalization	p. 7
Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment	p. 9
Primum Non Nocere: Chemical Execution and the Limits of Medical Social Control	p. 25
From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical Categories	p. 39
Social Construction of Health Problems	p. 67
The "Discovery" of Child Abuse	p. 69
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as a Medical Research Problem since 1945	p. 87
Officer Ugg, Mr. Yuk, Uncle Barf ... Ad Nausea: Controlling Poison Control, 1950-1985	p. 107
Social Movements	p. 123
Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement "Newness"	p. 125
Dynamics of Black Mobilization against AIDS in New York City	p. 145
Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast Cancer	p. 161
Gender	p. 189
The Politics of Menopause: The "Discovery" of a Deficiency Disease	p. 191
Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender	p. 207
The Emergence of Premenstrual Syndrome as a Social Problem	p. 227
Race, Class, and Health Care	p. 243
Race versus Class in the Health Care of African-American Elderly	p. 245
Lessons in Control: Prenatal Education in the Hospital	p. 267
Medical Accountability	p. 295
Sick Doctors: The Social Construction of Professional Deviance	p. 297
Changing Doctor-Patient Relationships and the Rise in Concern for Accountability	p. 317
Changing Medical Practice and Medical Malpractice Claims	p. 331
Sources	p. 353
Index	p. 355
About the Editors	p. 369
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