Perspectives in Medical Sociology

by Brown, Phil

• ISBN13: 9781577665182
• ISBN10: 157766518X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-20
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Summary

Brown Univ., Providence, RI. Presents a comprehensive collection of 38 articles on a broad range of research methods and data sources in medical sociology from perspectives of public health, medicine, epidemiology, political science, history, and anthropology. Includes poverty and ill health. For public health professionals. Previous edition: c2000. Softcover.

Table of Contents

The social context of health and illness	p. 1
Social inequality, health, and illness	p. 3
Poverty and ill health : physicians can, and should, make a difference	p. 5
Race, SES, and health : the added effects of racism and discrimination	p. 24
Women get sicker, but men die quicker : social epidemiology	p. 41
Limits of epidemiology	p. 62
Theories and perspectives on health and illness	p. 79
Naming and framing : the social construction of diagnosis and illness	p. 82
The shifting engines of medicalization	p. 104
Stress, coping, and social supports	p. 118
Place effects on health	p. 125
Environmental and occupational health	p. 139
Popular epidemiology and toxic waste contamination : lay and professional ways of knowing	p. 141
Worker health and safety at the beginning of a new century	p. 160
Being ill and getting care	p. 171
Experiencing illness and seeking care	p. 173
Pathways to the doctor - from person to patient	p. 176
The genesis of chronic illness : narrative reconstruction	p. 191
Experiences of illness and narrative understandings	p. 208
The medical management of femininity : women's experiences with silicone breast implants	p. 223
Illness and other assaults on self : the relative impact of HIV/AIDS on women's lives	p. 243
The emergence of alternative medicine	p. 261
Interaction negotiation, and trust between patients and providers	p. 271
The social organization of illness	p. 273
Infantilization : the medical model of care	p. 282
Concepts of trust among patients with serious illness	p. 292
Bioethics, experimentation, and new technologies	p. 307
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment	p. 310
Transplantation and the medical commons	p. 321
The DNA mystique : the gene as a cultural icon	p. 336
Prenatal diagnosis in context	p. 352
Is it safe? - new ethics for reporting personal exposures to environmental chemicals	p. 363
The health-care system	p. 377
The health-care industry	p. 379
Managed care : its origins and prospects	p. 382
Why the United States has no national health insurance	p. 400
Pills, power, people : sociological understandings of the pharmaceutical industry	p. 411
Institutional settings	p. 429
The rise of the modern hospital	p. 431
Antagonism and accommodation : interpreting the relationship between public health and medicine in the United States during the 20th century	p. 445
The patient in the intensive care unit	p. 459
Health-care providers	p. 471
The growth of medical authority	p. 475
To listen, to recognize	p. 483
The gender of care	p. 490
Nurses' role : caring, professionalism, and subordination	p. 503
Health social movements	p. 517
Embodied health movements : new approaches to social movements in health	p. 521
Democracy, expertise, and AIDS treatment activism	p. 539
Breast cancer in two regimes : the impact of social movements on illness experience	p. 555
Environmental justice organizing for environmental health : case study on asthma and diesel exhaust in Roxbury, Massachusetts	p. 577
Annotated bibliography of journals in medical sociology and related areas	p. 587
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