Research Catalog

Title

Society & medicine : essays in honor of Renée C. Fox / Carla M. Messikomer, Judith P. Swazey, Allen Glicksman, editors.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : London : Transaction, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Messikomer, Carla M.
• Swazey, Judith P.
• Glicksman, Allen
• Fox, Renée C. (Renée Claire), 1928-

Description

xvii, 284 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Society and medicine

Subjects

• Bioethics
• Social medicine
• Social Medicine
• Medicine > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Carla M. Messikomer, Judith P. Swazey and Allen Glicksman -- I. Health and Medicine: Social and Cultural Dimensions -- 1. Longing for Certainty: The Modern American Experience of Pregnancy / Elizabeth M. Armstrong -- 2. Healthy Beliefs: Wellness in Action at Company X / Jacqueline Hart -- 3. Gods, Living and Dead: Generativity Among Soviet Born Elders in the United States / Allen Glicksman -- 4. It Couldn't Hurt: An Ethnographic Study of a Ritual for Healing / Gail G. Glicksman -- 5. Overused and Underappreciated: Culture in an Academic Medicine Merger / Carla M. Messikomer and Judith P. Swazey -- 6. Transplanting the Transplant: Japanese Sensitivity to American Medicine as an American Mission / William R. LaFleur -- 7. Forty Years of Fieldwork: Renee Fox and Belgium/Belgium and Renee Fox / Yves Winkin -- II. Becoming and Being a Physician --
• 8. Responding to a Poor Evaluation: What Constitutes an "Honest" Response in the Eyes of Residency Program Directors / Virginia Adams O'Connell and Charles L. Bosk -- 9. On the Sociological Anxiety of Physicians / Nicholas A. Christakis -- 10. The Transplant Surgeon, the Sociologist, and the Historian: A Conversation with Thomas E. Starzl / Renee C. Fox -- 11. What if Food Were a Medicine? The Pediatrician and Childhood Hunger / Deborah A. Frank -- 12. Uncertainty and Changing Trust Relationships in Medicine / David Mechanic -- 13. The Social and Moral Commitments of a Physician-Writer / Robert Klitzman -- III. Bioethics, Sociology, and Medicine -- 14. Renee Fox, Human Experimentation, and Therapeutic Innovation: A Career of Values and Observations / Victor Lidz -- 15. Religious Sources for Debates in Bioethics / Jonathan B. Imber -- 16. Sociology and the De-moralization of Bioethics / Howard L. Kaye --
• 17. The Moral and the Medical: The Stakes of Social Experience / Arthur Kleinman -- IV. Postlude -- 18. Exploring the Moral and Spiritual Dimensions of Society and Medicine / Renee C. Fox.

ISBN

0765801566

OCLC

• 49679787
• ocm49679787
• SCSB-4794487

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries