The Social Medicine ReaderGail Henderson To meet the needs of the rapidly changing world of health care, future physicans and health care providers will need to be trained to become wiser scientists and humanists in order to understand the social and moral as well as technological aspects of health and illness. The Social Medicine Reader is designed to meet this need. Based on more than a decade of teaching social medicine to first-year medical students at the pioneering Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, The Social Medicine Reader defines the meaning of the social medicine perspective and offers an approach for teaching it. Looking at medicine from a variety of perspectives, this anthology features fiction, medical reports, scholarly essays, poetry, case studies, and personal narratives by patients and doctors--all of which contribute to an understanding of how medicine and medical practice is profoundly influenced by social, cultural, political, and economic forces. What happens when a person becomes a patient? How are illness and disability experienced? What causes disease? What can medicine do? What constitutes a doctor/patient relationship? What are the ethical obligations of a health care provider? These questions and many others are raised by The Social Medicine Reader, which is organized into sections that address how patients experience illness, cultural attitudes toward disease, social factors related to health problems, the socialization of physicians, the doctor/patient relationship, health care ethics and the provider's role, medical care financing, rationing, and managed care. |
Contents
The Basic Models of the DoctorPatient | 86 |
Finch the Spastic Speaks Gordon Weaver | 87 |
Tell Me Tell Me Irving Kenneth Zola | 95 |
OF EXPERIENCES OF ILLNESS No Easy Solution Nancy E Adler et al | 109 |
Culture Health and Illness 12 One Drop of Blood Lawrence Wright | 131 |
The Nature of Suffering and the Goals | 142 |
Black Womens Narratives from Spence + Lila excerpts Bobbie Ann Mason | 156 |
3 | 167 |
One Step Forward William Carlos Williams 320 | 238 |
The Boundaries of Is Truth Telling to the Patient a Cultural | 330 |
Medicine Is No Longer a Mans Profession | 341 |
Justified Limits on Refusing Intervention | 460 |
Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery | 469 |
Disconnecting a Ventilator at the Sharon Redmayne and Rudolf Klein | 475 |
William Carlos Williams 398 Changing Role | 481 |
A New Kind | 491 |
The Cost of Appearances Arthur Frank 66 What Do Children Owe Elderly Parents? | 175 |
Simple Living and Hard Choices | 209 |
CriticalIncident PART IV | 223 |
PART V | 506 |
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The Social Medicine Reader Gail Henderson,Nancy M. P. King,Ronald P. Strauss No preview available - 1997 |
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