The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Introduction
- Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Differences, and Inequalities
- Part I. Defining and Experiencing Differences
- Beyond Medicalisation
- On Being a Cripple
- What You Mourn
- Physicians’ Juries for Defective Babies
- Blind, Deaf, and Pro-Eugenics: Helen Keller’s Advice in Context
- Tell Me, Tell Me
- Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man
- I Have Diabetes. Am I to Blame?
- Part II. Sickness amid Relationships
- Twisted Lies: My Journey in an Imperfect Body
- Raising a Woman
- The Sick Wife
- The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver
- Fathers and Sons
- Parents Support Group
- Part III. Social Factors and Inequalities
- “Doctors Don’t Know Anything”: The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health
- Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It
- Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility to Clinical Settings
- The Racist Patient
- The Social Determinants of Health: Coming of Age
- Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine
- Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge
- Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?
- Taking Race Out of Human Genetics: Engaging a Century-Long Debate about the Role of Race in Science
- Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the United States of America: Evidence and Interventions
- America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic
- Is the Prescription Opioid Epidemic a White Problem?
- Understanding Associations between Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: Patterns and Prospects
- Can Disparities Be Deadly? Controversial Research Explores Whether Living in an Unequal Society Can Make People Sick
- Religion and Global Health
- Part IV. Politics, Institutions, and Care
- Thinking through the Pain
- Unfinished Journey: The Struggle over Universal Health Insurance in the United States
- On Incarceration and Health: Reframing the Discussion
- Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods
- About the Editors
- Index
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