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Dear MERSENNE Subscribers, I hope the following will be of interest to you: The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition Volume One: Patients, Doctors, and Illness Nancy M.P. King, Ronald P. Strauss, Larry R. Churchill, Sue E. Estroff, Gail E. Henderson, and Jonathan Oberlander, eds. Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader. The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. The first edition of The Social Medicine Reader was a single volume. This significantly revised and expanded second edition is divided into three volumes to facilitate use by different audiences with varying interests Praise for the 3-volume second edition of The Social Medicine Reader: "A superb collection of essays that illuminate the role of medicine in modern society. Students and general readers are not likely to find anything better."-Arnold S. Relman, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Volume 1: A woman with what is quite probably a terminal illness must choose between courses of treatment based on contradictory diagnoses. A medical student causes acute pain in his patients as he learns to insert a central line. One doctor wonders how to react when a patient asks him to pray with her; another struggles to come to terms with his mistakes. A physician writes in a prominent medical journal about facilitating a dying woman's wish to end her life on her own terms; letters to the editor reflect passionate responses both in support of and in opposition to his actions. These experiences and many more are vividly rendered in Patients, Doctors, and Illness, which brings together nineteen pieces that appeared in the first edition of The Social Medicine Reader and eighteen pieces new to this edition. This volume examines the roles and training of health care professionals and their relationship with patients, ethics in health care, and end-of-life experiences and decisions. It includes fiction and nonfiction narratives and poetry; definitions and case-based discussions of moral precepts in health care, such as truth telling, informed consent, privacy, and autonomy; and readings that provide legal, ethical, and practical perspectives on many familiar but persistent ethical and social questions raised by illness and care Contributors: Yehuda Amichai, Marcia Angell, George J. Annas, Marc D. Basson, Doris Betts, Amy Bloom, Abenaa Brewster, Raymond Carver, Eric J. Cassell, Larry R. Churchill, James Dickey, Gerald Dworkin, James Dwyer, Miles J. Edwards, Charles R. Feldstein, Chris Feudtner, Leonard Fleck, Arthur Frank, Benjamin Freedman, Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, Lawrence D. Grouse, David Hilfiker, Nancy M. P. King, Perri Klass, Melvin Konner, Bobbie Ann Mason, Steven H. Miles, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Timothy E. Quill, David Schenck, Daniel Shapiro, Susan W. Tolle, Alice Stewart Trillin, William Carlos Williams The editors of The Social Medicine Reader include five current and one former member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. At UNC, Sue E. Estroff is a professor of social medicine and an adjunct professor of anthropology and psychiatry; Gail E. Henderson is a professor of social medicine and an adjunct professor of sociology; Nancy M. P. King is a professor of social medicine; Jonathan Oberlander is an associate professor of social medicine and an adjunct associate professor of political science; and Ronald P. Strauss is a professor of social medicine and Dental Friends Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Dental Ecology in the School of Dentistry. Larry R. Churchill holds the Ann Geddes Stahlman Chair in Medical Ethics in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. CONTENTS Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Part I: The Experience of Illness The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine, Eric J. Cassell Lilacs in September, Katha Pollitt Diabetes, James Dickey The Cost of Appearances, Arthur Frank Betting Your Life, Alice Stewart Trillin The Want of Control: Ideas and Ideals in the Management of Diabetes, Chris Feudtner Spence + Lila, Bobbie Ann Mason Silver Water, Amy Bloom The Mother-in-Law, Doris Betts Part II: The Culture of Medicine and the Physician-Patient Relationship Basic Clinical Skills: The First Encounters, Melvin Konner The Learning Curve, Atul Gawande Case Study: The "Student Doctor and a Wary Patient, Marc D. Basson, Gerald Dworkin, and Eric J. Cassell A Students' View of a Medical Teaching Exercise, Abenaa Brewster Primum non tacere: An Ethics of Speaking Up, James Dwyer Perspective Shift: Daniel Shapiro Facing Our Mistakes, David Hilfiker God at the Bedside, Jerome Groopman Part III: Health Care Ethics and the Clinician's Role Glossary of Basic Ethical Concepts in Health Care and Resarch, Nancy M. P. King Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions, Larry R. Churchill, Nancy M. P. King, and David Schenck Historical and Contemporary Codes of Ethics: The Hippocratic Oath, Maimonides' Prayer, the Declaration of Geneva, and the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics Case Study: Please Don't Tell!, Leonard Fleck and Marcia Angell Invasions, Perri Klass The Use of Force, William Carlos Williams The Lie, Lawrence D. Grouse Informed Consent, Cancer, and Truth in Prognosis, George H. Annas Offering Truth: One Ethical Approach to the Uninformed Cancer Patient, Benjamin Freedman What the Doctor Said, Raymond Carver Part IV: The End of Life A Man in His Life, Yehuda Amichai End-of-Life Ethics: Some Common Definitions, Larry R. Churchill and Nancy M.P. King Informed Demand for "Non-Beneficial" Medical Treatment, Steven H. Miles The Case of Helga Wanglie: A New Kind of "Right to Die" Case, Marcia Angell Disconnecting a Ventilator at the Request of a Patient Who Knows He Will Then Die: The Doctor's Anguish, Miles J. Edwards and Susan W. Tolle The Promise, Sharon Olds Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making, Timothy E. Quill Correspondence: Death and Dignity: The Case of Diane Doctor, I Want to Die. Will You Help Me? Timothy E. Quill The Chain of Safety, Charles R. Feldstein Try to Rmember Some Details, Yehuda Amichai DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS 312 pages (OCTOBER 2005) ISBN 0-8223-3555-7 Cloth -£60.00 ISBN 0-8223-3568-9 Paperback - £14.95 SPECIAL DISCOUNTED PRICE OF £10.50 to MERSENNE Subscribers Postage and Packing £2.75 To order a copy please contact Marston on 44(0)1235 465500 or email [log in to unmask] or visit our website www.combinedacademic.demon.co.uk (Please quote reference MER16SMR). Julia Monk Marketing Manager Combined Academic Publishers 48 Baldslow Road Hastings East Sussex TN34 2EY Tel/Fax: 44 (0)1424 436533 Email: [log in to unmask]