Health, Illness, and Healing: Society, Social Context, and Self An Anthology

by Charmaz, Kathy; Paterniti, Debora A.

• ISBN13: 9780195329766
• ISBN10: 0195329767
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This innovative collection offers a fresh look at health, healing, and illness--providing a "bridge" between human experience and social policies and practices. The book brings people with illness into the foreground; it goes beyond patient's roles and into their lives--emphasizing the gap between the acute care model and the needs of the chronically ill. The readings link personal accounts with structural problems, inviting students to identify with these authors and to see the social issues within their stories. Selections are accessible and edited for succinctness. Section and chapter introductions bring the articles into focus and guide student reading. Discussion questions stimulate critical thinking, and suggested readings direct students to pivotal references. Throughout the book, coverage demonstrates how gender, race, class, and age affect patients and players within the health-care system. Stories help students reexamine their assumptions about medical care "shoulds" and "oughts" and to think critically about future priorities and trends. Other articles cover: * Illness and identity * Care and control * Becoming a person with HIV disease * The damaged self * Rationing medical care * Marketing rehabilitation goods and services * The problematic nature of defining health * Socioeconomic differences in health service

Table of Contents

Defining Health and Illness

Conceptions of Health

Accounts of Health and Illness: Dilemmas and Representations

The Origins of the Health Movement

The Subject in Health Promotion Campaigns, Deborah Lupton The Self In Social Context

Seeing Through Pain

Mastectomy and Reconstruction

The Desert

The Damaged Self

Discoveries of Self in Illness

Illness and Identity

The Body, Identity, and the Self: Adapting to Impairment

The Rigors of Kidney Dialysis for Robert Banes

A Weekend in the Life of a Medical Student

Never Enough Time: How Medical Residents Manage a Scarce Resource, William Yoels and Jeffrey Clair Care-taking and Caring-giving Relationships

Respect, Satisfaction, and Health Care: Canada and the U.S.

The Caregiver's Perspective

Care and Control: Managing Stress by Medicalizing Deviance

Narratives of Aging and Social Problems in Medical Encounters with Older Persons

The Prevalence of Patient's Expectations for Care

If It's Not Charted, It Didn't Happen

Institutional and Organizational Constraints

My Residency, Michele Harrison

The Radicalization of Birthing: Going Through Changes

Boundary Encroachment and Task Delegation: Clinical Pharmacists on the Medical Team

What It Means to Be a Nurse

Wellness in the Workplace: Potentials and Pitfalls of Worksite Health Promotion

Stress and Burnout in the Social World of Hospice

Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause

The Rise of the Surgical Fix

The Marketing of Goods and Services

Robust Resistance

Race and Infant Mortality

U.S. Socioeconomic Differences in Health: Patterns and Explanations

Pathways of Health and Death

Latina and African American Women: Continuing Disparities in Health

Impact of Marital Status on Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients

Why the U.S. Health-Care System Does Not Respond to People's Needs

The Canadian System

Japan's Medical System

Twenty Years of Health Care in Japan, Toshiomi Asahi The Social Construction of Illness: The Case of Aids

Brad, Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley

Trends in AIDS Incidence, Deaths, and Prevalence in the United States, Centers for Disease Control

Women and HIV

Becoming a Person With HIV Disease

Ethical Problems Involving Sexuality

Confronting Deadly Disease: The Drama of Identity Construction Among Gay Men With AIDS

AIDS and the Impact on Medical Work: The Culture and Politics of the Shop Floor

AIDS Prevention Outreach Among Injection Drug Users: Agency Problems and New Approaches, Robert Broadhead and Douglas Heckathorn The Future of Health, Illness, and Healing

Playing God

Baby Doe Before Regulations

The "Do Not Resuscitate" Order as Ritual

On the Ragged Edge: Needs, Endless Needs

The Rising Costs of Healt

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