Perspectives in Medical Sociology

by Brown, Phil

• ISBN13: 9781577661344
• ISBN10: 1577661346
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Summary

Phil Brown has designed this book to make discussion of the issues of medical sociology interesting, accessible, & challenging.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction to the Book	xiii
PART I The Social Context of Health and Illness	1	(192)
Social Inequality, Health, and Illness	3	(2)
Poverty and Ill Health: Physicians Can, and Should, Make a Difference	5	(16)
Michael McCally
Andrew Haines
Oliver Fein
Whitney Addington
Robert S. Lawrence
Christine K. Cassel
Race, SES, and Health: The Added Effects of Racism and Discrimination	21	(19)
David R. Williams
Women Get Sicker but Men Die Quicker: Gender and Health	40	(34)
Judith Lorber
Theories and Perspectives on Health and Illness	71	(3)
Naming and Framing: The Social Construction of Diagnosis and Illness	74	(30)
Phil Brown
Medicalization and Social Control	104	(26)
Peter Conrad
Experiences of Illness and Narrative Understandings	130	(16)
Susan E. Bell
Stress, Coping, and Social Supports	146	(11)
Leonard I. Pearlin
Carol S. Aneshensel
Environmental and Occupational Health	155	(2)
Popular Epidemiology and Toxic Waste Contamination: Lay and Professional Ways of Knowing	157	(25)
Phil Brown
Worker Health and Safety at the Beginning of a New Century	182	(11)
David Kotelchuck
Part II Being III and Getting Care	193	(256)
Experiencing Illness and Seeking Care	195	(3)
Pathways to the Doctor---From Person to Patient	198	(17)
Irving Kenneth Zola
The Genesis of Chronic Illness: Narrative Reconstruction	215	(27)
Gareth Williams
Life with AIDS	242	(14)
Rose Weitz
The Medical Management of Femininity: Women's Experiences with Silicone Breast Implants	256	(29)
Susan Zimmerman
Interaction and Negotiation Between Patients and Providers	283	(2)
The Social Organization of Illness	285	(10)
Eliot Freidson
Infantilization: The Medical Model of Care	295	(14)
Karen A. Lyman
Alternatives to Formal Medicine	307	(2)
The Meaning and Practice of Self-Care by Older Adults	309	(24)
Ann Dill
Phil Brown
Desiree Ciambrone
William Rakowski
Western Reflections on Eastern Medicine	333	(30)
Alexandra Dundas Todd
The Emergence of Alternative Medicine	363	(13)
Michael Goldstein
Technology, Experimentation, and Social Control	373	(3)
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment	376	(13)
James Jones
Transplantation and the Medical Commons	389	(17)
Renee C. Fox
Judith P. Swazey
The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon	406	(19)
Dorothy Nelkin
Susan Lindee
Prenatal Diagnosis in Context	425	(24)
Barbara Katz Rothman
PART III The Health Care System	449	(212)
The Health Care Industry	451	(4)
What Is Managed Care?	455	(15)
Arnold Birenbaum
The Evolution of Investor-Owned Hospital Companies	470	(14)
Bradford H. Gray
The Origins and Rise of Managed Care	484	(20)
Donald W. Light
What Is Driving Health System Change?	504	(19)
Lynn Etheridge
Stanley B. Jones
Lawrence Lewin
Institutional Settings	521	(2)
The Rise of the Modern Hospital	523	(17)
Charles Rosenberg
The Patient in the Intensive Care Unit	540	(17)
Robert Zussman
Health Care Providers	553	(4)
The Growth of Medical Authority	557	(9)
Paul Starr
To Listen, To Recognize	566	(8)
Rita Charon
A Caring Dilemma: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective	574	(17)
Susan Reverby
Nurses' Role: Caring, Professionalism, and Subordination	591	(18)
Daniel Chambliss
Social Movements, Social Change, and Health	605	(4)
Democracy, Expertise, and AIDS Treatment Activism	609	(17)
Steven Epstein
Breathing Life into Ourselves: The Evolution of the National Black Women's Health Project	626	(6)
Byllye Y. Avery
Getting the Lead Out of the Community	632	(13)
Janet Phoenix
A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal	645	(16)
David U. Himmelstein
Steffie Woolhandler
Appendix 1: Sources of Data	661	(6)
Steven Jonas
Appendix 2: Annotated Bibliography of Journals in Medical Sociology and Related Areas	667