The Social Medicine Reader

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

• ISBN13: 9780822335931
• ISBN10: 082233593X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-31
• 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	vii
Introduction	1	(3)
Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality	4	(25)
Sue E. Estroff
Gail E. Henderson
Part I Defining and Experiencing Difference
Defining the Defective: Eugenics, Aesthetics, and Mass Culture in Early 20th-Century America	29	(21)
Martin S. Pernick
Extra Chromosomes and Blue Tulips: Medico-familial Interpretations	50	(20)
Rayna Rapp
On Being a Cripple	70	(12)
Nancy Mairs
Tell Me, Tell Me	82	(7)
Irving Kenneth Zola
Finch the Spastic Speaks	89	(16)
Gordon Weaver
Part II Social Factors and Inequality
Introduction to Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues	105	(18)
Paul Farmer
Unequal Treatment: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know about Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare	123	(10)
Brian D. Smedley
Adrienne Y. Stith
Alan R. Nelson
Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility to Clinical Settings	133	(4)
Linda M. Hunt
Coming to Terms with Advanced Breast Cancer: Black Women's Narratives from Eastern North Carolina	137	(27)
Holly F. Mathews
Donald R. Lannin
James P. Mitchell
Women Get Sicker, but Men Die Quicker	164	(27)
Judith Lorber
Hormones for Men: Is Male Menopause a Question of Medicine or of Marketing?	191	(11)
Jerome Groopman
The Five Sexes, Revisited	202	(9)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Case Study: Culture Clash Involving Intersex	211	(7)
David Diamond
Sharon Sytsma
Alice Dreger
Bruce Wilson
The Meanings of ``Race'' in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research	218	(34)
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee
Joanna Mountain
Barbara A. Koenig
White, European, Western, Caucasian, or What? Inappropriate Labeling in Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Health	252	(11)
Raj Bhopal
Liam Donaldson
Racial Profiling in Medical Research	263	(5)
Robert S. Schwartz
I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor	268	(9)
Sally L. Satel
Part III Social Relationships and Sickness
``Where Crowded Humanity Suffers and Sickens'': The Banes Family and Their Neighborhood	277	(16)
Laurie K. Abraham
First-Person Account: Schizophrenia through a Sister's Eyes---The Burden of Invisible Baggage	293	(6)
Ami S. Brodoff
The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver	299	(8)
Carol Levine
What Do Children Owe Elderly Parents?	307	(14)
Daniel Callahan
Index to Authors	321	(1)
About the Editors	322