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Tables of Contents for Sociology of Health and Illness
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
General Introduction
1
6
PART ONE THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF DISEASE AND ILLNESS
7
1
The Social Nature of Disease
7
17
Medical Measures and the Decline of Mortality
10
14
John B. McKinlay
Sonja M. McKinlay
Who Gets Sick? The Unequal Social Distribution of Disease
24
34
Social Class, Susceptibility, and Sickness
29
6
S. Leonard Syme
Lisa F. Berkman
Excess Mortality in Harlem
35
7
Colin McCord
Harold P. Freeman
What Do We Know about Causes of Sex Differences in Mortality? A Review of the Literature
42
13
Ingrid Waldron
A Tale of Two States
55
3
Victor R. Fuchs
Our Sickening Social and Physical Environments
58
48
Black Lung: The Social Production of Disease
62
13
Barbara Ellen Smith
Popular Epidemiology: Community Response to Toxic Waste-Induced Disease
75
8
Phil Brown
Social Relationships and Health
83
10
James S. House
Karl R. Landis
Debra Umberson
Social Class and Cardiovascular Disease: The Contribution of Work
93
13
Michael Marmot
Tores Theorell
The Social and Cultural Meanings of Illness
106
27
Anorexia Nervosa in Context
110
15
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
An Epidemic of Stigma: Public Reaction to AIDS
125
8
Gregory M. Herek
Eric K. Glunt
The Experience of Illness
133
26
Uncertainty and the Lives of Persons with AIDS
136
11
Rose Weitz
The Meaning of Medications: Another Look at Compliance
147
12
Peter Conrad
PART TWO THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL CARE
159
1
Creating and Maintaining the Dominance of Medicine
159
44
Professionalization, Monopoly, and the Structure of Medical Practice
163
7
Peter Conrad
Joseph W. Schneider
Notes on the Decline of Midwives and the Rise of Medical Obstetricians
170
12
Richard W. Wertz
Dorothy C. Wertz
Corporatization and the Social Transformation of Doctoring
182
12
John B. McKinlay
John D. Stoeckle
Countervailing Power: The Changing Character of the Medical Profession in the United States
194
9
Donald W. Light
The Social Organization of Medical Workers
203
35
The US Health Care System
206
9
John Fry
Donald Light
Jonathan Rodnick
Peter Orton
A Caring Dilemma: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective
215
10
Susan Reverby
AIDS and Its Impact on Medical Work: The Culture and Politics of the Shop Floor
225
13
Charles L. Bosk
Joel E. Frader
Medical Industries
238
22
The Health Care Industry: Where Is It Taking Us?
240
7
Arnold S. Relman
A Marxian Interpretation of the Growth and Development of Coronary Care Technology
247
13
Howard Waitzkin
Financing Medical Care
260
33
A Century of Failure: Health Care Reform in America
264
9
David J. Rothman
Paying for Health Care
273
8
Thomas Bodenheimer
Kevin Grumbach
Costs and Coverage: Pressures toward Health Care Reform
281
12
Philip R. Lee
Denise Soffel
Harold S. Luft
Medicine in Practice
293
55
The Struggle between the Voice of Medicine and the Voice of the Lifeworld
295
13
Elliot G. Mishler
Some Contingencies of the Moral Evaluation and Control of Clientele: The Case of the Hospital Emergency Service
308
12
Julius A. Roth
The Language of Case Presentation
320
19
Renee R. Anspach
Midwives in Transition: The Sttucture of a Clinical Revolution
339
9
Barbara Katz Rothman
Dilemmas of Medical Technology
348
31
The Misguided Quest for the Artificial Heart
352
7
Barton J. Bernstein
Issues in the Application of High Cost Medical Technology: The Case of Organ Transplantation
359
14
Nancy G. Kutner
Genetics and Social Policy
373
6
Dorothy Nelkin
PART THREE CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL DEBATES
379
1
Individual Responsibility and Health
379
23
The Responsibility of the Individual
382
11
John H. Knowles
Individual Responsibility and Health Politics
393
9
Robert Crawford
The Medicalization of American Society
402
18
Medicine as an Institution of Social Control
404
11
Irving Kenneth Zola
The Medicalization and Demedicalization of American Society
415
5
Renee C. Fox
Rationing Medical Care
420
11
Rationing Medical Progress: The Way to Affordable Health Care
423
4
Daniel Callahan
The Trouble with Rationing
427
4
Arnold S. Relman
PART FOUR TOWARD ALTERNATIVES IN HEALTH CARE
431
1
Community Initiatives
431
31
Improving the Health Experiences of Low Income Patients
436
13
Catherine Kohler Riessman
Politicizing Health Care
449
4
John McKnight
Helping Ourselves
453
9
Ann Withorn
Comparative Health Policies
462
43
Comparative Models of ``Health Care'' Systems
467
15
Donald W. Light
Canada's Health Insurance and Ours: The Real Lessons, the Big Choices
482
10
Theodore R. Marmor
Jerry L. Mashaw
Continuity and Change in the British National Health Service
492
13
Jonathan Gabe
Prevention and Society
505
32
Wellness in the Work Place: Potentials and Pitfalls of Work-Site Health Promotion
508
11
Peter Conrad
A Case for Refocussing Upstream: The Political Economy of Illness
519
18
John B. McKinlay
Contributing Author Index
537
2
Subject Index
539