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: 9780742528567
• ISBN10: 0742528561
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-22
• 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	1	(6)
Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter
PART I: MEDICALIZATION	7	(60)
1 Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment	9	(16)
Joseph W. Schneider
2 Primum Non Nocere: Chemical Execution and the Limits of Medical Social Control	25	(14)
Herb Haines
3 From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical Categories	39	(28)
Peter Conrad and Deborah Potter
PART II: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEALTH PROBLEMS	67	(56)
4 The "Discovery" of Child Abuse	69	(18)
Stephen J. Pfohl
5 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as a Medical Research Problem since 1945	87	(20)
Michael P. Johnson and Karl Hufbauer
6 Officer Ugg, Mr. Yuk, Uncle Barf ... Ad Nausea: Controlling Poison Control, 1950-1985	107	(16)
Robert S. Broadhead
PART III: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS	123	(66)
7 Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement "Newness"	125	(20)
Josh Gamson
8 Dynamics of Black Mobilization against AIDS in New York City	145	(16)
Ernest Quimby and Samuel R. Friedman
9 Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast Cancer	161	(28)
Maren Klawiter
PART IV: GENDER	189	(54)
10 The Politics of Menopause: The "Discovery" of a Deficiency Disease	191	(16)
Frances B. McCrea
11 Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender	207	(20)
Diana Dull and Candace West
12 The Emergence of Premenstrual Syndrome as a Social Problem	227	(16)
C. Amanda Rittenhouse
PART V: RACE, CLASS, AND HEALTH CARE	243	(52)
13 Race versus Class in the Health Care of African-American Elderly	245	(22)
Steven R. Wallace
14 Lessons in Control: Prenatal Education in the Hospital	267	(28)
Elizabeth M. Armstrong
PART VI: MEDICAL ACCOUNTABILITY	295	(58)
15 Sick Doctors: The Social Construction of Professional Deviance	297	(20)
Carol Klaperman Morrow
16 Changing Doctor-Patient Relationships and the Rise in Concern for Accountability	317	(14)
Michael Betz and Lenahan O'Connell
17 Changing Medical Practice and Medical Malpractice Claims	331	(22)
Stephen L. Fielding
Sources	353	(2)
Index	355	(14)
About the Editors	369