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The Social Medicine
Reader, Second Edition
Volume Two: Social and Cultural Contributions
to Health, Difference, and Inequality
Gail E. Henderson, Sue E. Estroff, Larry R. Churchill,
Nancy M. P. King, Jonathan Oberlander, and Ronald P.
Strauss
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
2:
Ranging from a historical look at eugenics to an ethnographic
description of parents receiving the news that their child has Down syndrome,
from analyses of inequalities in the delivery of health services to an
examination of the meaning of race in genomics research, and from a meditation
on the loneliness of the long-term caregiver to a reflection on what children
owe their elderly parents, this volume explores health and illness. Social and
Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality brings together
seventeen pieces new to this edition of The Social Medicine Reader and five
pieces that appeared in the first edition. It focuses on how difference and
disability are defined and experienced in contemporary America, how the social
categories commonly used to predict disease outcomes—such as gender, race and
ethnicity, and social class—have become contested terrain, and why some groups
have more limited access to health care services than others. Juxtaposing
first-person narratives with empirical and conceptual studies, this compelling
collection draws on several disciplines, including cultural and medical
anthropology, sociology, and the history of medicine
Contributors: Laurie
K. Abraham, Raj Bhopal, Ami S. Brodoff, Daniel Callahan, David Diamond, Liam
Donaldson, Alice Dreger, Sue E. Estroff, Paul Farmer, Anne Fausto-Sterling,
Jerome Groopman, Gail E. Henderson, Linda M. Hunt, Barbara A. Koenig, Donald R.
Lannin, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Carol Levine, Judith Lorber, Nancy Mairs, Holly F.
Mathews, James P. Mitchell, Joanna Mountain, Alan R. Nelson, Martin S. Pernick,
Rayna Rapp, Sally L. Satel, Robert S. Schwartz, Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y.
Stith, Sharon Sytsma, Gordon Weaver, Bruce Wilson, Irving Kenneth
Zola
“In this balanced collection of readings, the perennially contested
categories of gender and race, and their implications for understanding the
social origins of health inequalities are reexamined in light of existing and
anticipated advances in genomics research. I highly recommend this book to
anyone seeking to understand how biology and culture interact to shape human
health and the behavior of health professionals.”—Sherman A. James, Susan B.
King Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University
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.
DUKE UNIVERSITY
PRESS
336 pages
(November 2005)
ISBN 0-8223-3580-8 Cloth - £60.00
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