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The social medicine reader.
- Title
- The social medicine reader.
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| vol.3 | Text | Use in library | RA418 .S6424 2005 vol.3 | Off-site | |
| vol.2 | Text | Use in library | RA418 .S6424 2005 vol.2 | Off-site | |
| vol.1 | Text | Use in library | RA418 .S6424 2005 vol.1 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- King, Nancy M. P.
- Description
- 3 volumes; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality is the second of three volumes in the second edition of The Social Medicine Reader, a provocative and engaging survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers." "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. Book jacket."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Social medicine
- Medical policy
- Medical personnel and patient
- Sick > Psychology
- Social Medicine
- Ethics, Clinical
- Health Policy
- Professional-Patient Relations
- Sick Role
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Terminal Care
- Sociology, Medical
- Sick > Psychology
- Medical policy
- Medical personnel and patient
- Social medicine
- Sociale geneeskunde
- Genre/Form
- Collected Work
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also issued online.
- Contents
- v. 1. Patients, doctors, and illness / edited by Nancy M.P. King ... [et al.] -- v. 2. Social and cultural contributions to health, difference, and inequality / edited by Gail E. Henderson ... [et al.]. -- v. 3. Health policy, markets, and medicine / edited by Jonathan Oberlander ... [et al.].
- ISBN
- 0822335557
- 9780822335559
- 0822335689
- 9780822335689
- 0822335808
- 9780822335801
- 082233593X
- 9780822335931
- 0822335565
- 9780822335566
- 0822335697
- 9780822335696
- LCCN
- 2005010301
- OCLC
- ocm59148079
- 59148079
- SCSB-14660506
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library