The Social Medicine Reader

by King, Nancy M. P.; Strauss, Ronald P.; Churchill, Larry R.; Estroff, Sue E.; Henderson, Gail E.

• ISBN13: 9780822335689
• ISBN10: 0822335689
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality is the second of three volumes in the second edition of The Social Medicine Reader, a provocative and engaging survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	ix
Introduction	1	(6)
Part I The Experience of Illness
The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine	7	(14)
Eric J. Cassell
Lilacs in September	21	(1)
Katha Pollitt
Diabetes	22	(4)
James Dickey
The Cost of Appearances	26	(6)
Arthur Frank
Betting Your Life	32	(9)
Alice Stewart Trillin
The Want of Control: Ideas and Ideals in the Management of Diabetes	41	(19)
Chris Feudtner
Spence + Lila	60	(11)
Bobbie Ann Mason
Silver Water	71	(9)
Amy Bloom
The Mother-in-Law	80	(9)
Doris Betts
Part II The Culture of Medicine and the Physician-Patient Relationship
Basic Clinical Skills: The First Encounters	89	(13)
Melvin Konner
The Learning Curve	102	(19)
Atul Gawande
Case Study: The ``Student Doctor'' and a Wary Patient	121	(6)
Marc D. Basson
Gerald Dworkin
Eric J. Cassell
A Student's View of a Medical Teaching Exercise	127	(3)
Abenaa Brewster
Primum non tacere: An Ethics of Speaking Up	130	(13)
James Dwyer
Perspective Shift	143	(2)
Daniel Shapiro
Facing Our Mistakes	145	(9)
David Hilfiker
God at the Bedside	154	(7)
Jerome Groopman
Part III Health Care Ethics and the Clinician's Role
Glossary of Basic Ethical Concepts in Health Care and Research	161	(8)
Nancy M. P. King
Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions	169	(17)
Larry R. Churchill
Nancy M. P. King
David Schenck
Historical and Contemporary Codes of Ethics: The Hippocratic Oath, Maimonides' Prayer, the Declaration of Geneva, and the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics	186	(5)
Case Study: Please Don't Tell!	191	(5)
Leonard Fleck
Marcia Angell
Invasions	196	(5)
Perri Klass
The Use of Force	201	(4)
William Carlos Williams
The Lie	205	(3)
Lawrence D. Grouse
Informed Consent, Cancer, and Truth in Prognosis	208	(8)
George J. Annas
Offering Truth: One Ethical Approach to the Uninformed Cancer Patient	216	(12)
Benjamin Freedman
What the Doctor Said	228	(2)
Raymond Carver
Part IV The End of Life
A Man in His Life	230	(2)
Yehuda Amichai
End-of-Life Ethics: Some Common Definition	232	(3)
Larry R. Churchill
Nancy M. P. King
Informed Demand for ``Non-Beneficial'' Medical Treatment	235	(6)
Steven H. Miles
The Case of Helga Wanglie: A New Kind of ``Right to Die'' Case	241	(5)
Marica Angell
Disconnecting a Ventilator at the Request of a Patient Who Knows He Will Then Die: The Doctor's Anguish	246	(8)
Miles J. Edwards
Susan W. Tolle
The Promise	254	(2)
Sharon Olds
Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making	256	(7)
Timothy E. Quill
Correspondence: Death and Dignity: The Case of Diane	263	(10)
Doctor, I Want to Die, Will You Help Me?	273	(13)
Timothy E. Quill
The Chain of Safety	286	(2)
Charles R. Feldstein
Try to Remember Some Details	288	(3)
Yehuda Amichai
Index to Authors	291	(2)
About the Editors	293