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Tables of Contents for The Social Medicine Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
5
PART I A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE OF EXPERIENCES OF ILLNESS, DISABILITY, AND DEVIANCE
6
94
Introduction
6
6
Sue E. Estroff
1 Culture, Health, and Illness
12
49
The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
13
10
Eric J. Cassell
Cancer, Control, and Causality: Talking about Cancer in a Working-Class Community
23
20
Martha Balshem
Coming to Terms with Advanced Breast Cancer: Black Women's Narratives from Eastern North Carolina
43
18
Holly F. Mathews
Donald R. Lannin
James P. Mitchell
2 Illness Experiences and Illness Narratives
61
14
The Deer at Providencia
63
3
Annie Dillard
The Cost of Appearances
66
3
Arthur Frank
Silver Water
69
6
Amy Bloom
3 Experiences of Deviance, Chronic Illness, and Disability
75
25
Self, Identity, and the Naming Question: Reflections on the Language of Disability
77
10
Irving Kenneth Zola
Finch the Spastic Speaks
87
8
Gordon Weaver
Tell Me, Tell Me
95
5
Irving Kenneth Zola
PART II THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL FACTORS ON HEALTH AND ILLNESS
100
105
Introduction
100
8
Gail E. Henderson
1 The Relationship between Social Class, Race/Ethnicity, and Health
108
34
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: No Easy Solution
109
16
Nancy E. Adler et al.
"Where Crowded Humanity Suffers and Sickens": The Banes Family and Their Neighborhood
121
10
Laurie K. Abraham
One Drop of Blood
131
11
Lawrence Wright
2 Gender and Health
142
25
Women Have Headaches, Men Have Backaches: Patterns of Illness in an Appalachian Community
143
13
Claire F. Horton
Spence + Lila (excerpts), Bobbie Ann Mason
156
7
The Mother-in-Law
163
4
Doris Betts
3. Old Age
167
38
Trends, Issues, Perspectives, and Values for the Aging of the Baby Boom Cohorts (excerpts)
168
7
John M. Cornman
Eric R. Kingson
What Do Children Owe Elderly Parents?
175
9
Daniel Callahan
Decision Making, Responsibility, and Advocacy in Geriatric Medicine: Physician Dilemmas with Elderly in the Community
184
12
Sharon R. Kaufman
We Are Nighttime Travelers
196
9
Ethan Canin
PART III THE CULTURE OF MEDICINE AND MEDICAL PRACTICE
205
99
Introduction
205
4
Ronald P. Strauss
1 The Socialization of Physicians
209
35
Basic Clinical Skills: The First Encounters
210
13
Melvin Konner
Becoming a Doctor: Critical-Incident Reports from Third-Year Medical Students
223
4
William Branch
Richard J. Pels
Robert S. Lawrence
Ronald Arky
Invasions
227
3
Perri Klass
Ethical Dilemmas for House Staff Physicians: The Care of Critically Ill and Dying Patients
230
6
William Winkenwerder Jr.
A Student's View of a Medical Teaching Exercise
236
2
Abenaa Brewster
The Libby Zion Case: One Step Forward or Two Steps Backward?
238
6
David A. Asch
Ruth M. Parker
2 Medical Practice in Social Context
244
33
Presidential Address: The Boundaries of Medicine
244
10
Donald W. Seldin
The Boundaries of Medicine
254
9
Gerald T. Perkoff
The Changing Demography of the Medical Profession
263
3
Arnold S. Relman
Medicine Is No Longer a Man's Profession; Or, When the Men's Club Goes Coed It's Time to Change the Regs
266
4
Carola Eisenberg
The Doctors of Hoyland
270
7
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3 Relationships between Doctors and Patients
277
27
The Basic Models of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
278
9
Thomas S. Szasz
Marc H. Hollender
Facing Our Mistakes
287
6
David Hilfiker
Simple Living and Hard Choices
293
7
Maureen A. Flannery
The Paid Nurse
300
4
William Carlos Williams
PART IV HEALTH CARE ETHICS AND THE PROVIDER'S ROLE
304
106
Introduction
304
Nancy M. P. King
1 The Provider-Patient Relationship
309
44
Bioethics in Social Context
310
10
Larry R. Churchill
The Use of Force
320
3
William Carlos Williams
Case Study: The "Student Doctor" and a Wary Patient
323
3
Marc D. Basson
Gerald Dworkin
Eric J. Cassell
Truth Telling to the Patient
326
4
Antonella Surbone
Is Truth Telling to the Patient a Cultural Artifact?
330
3
Edmund D. Pellegrino
Offering Truth: One Ethical Approach to the Uninformed Cancer Patient
333
8
Benjamin Freedman
What the Doctor Said
341
1
Raymond Carver
Informed Consent, Cancer, and Truth in Prognosis
341
5
George J. Annas
Swapping Stories: A Matter of Ethics
346
3
Judith Andre
Case Study: Please Don't Tell!
349
4
Leonard Fleck
Marcia Angell
2 Interests in Conflict
353
38
Cesareans and Samaritans
354
11
Nancy K. Rhoden
Justified Limits on Refusing Intervention
365
10
Frank A. Chervenak
Laurence B. McCullough
Faith (Healing), Hope, and Charity at the FDA: The Politics of AIDS Drug Trials
375
11
George J. Annas
Case Study: The Doctor's Unproven Beliefs and the Subject's Informed Choice
386
5
Don Marquis et al.
3 Choices about Treatment
391
19
Disconnecting a Ventilator at the Request of a Patient Who Knows He Will Then Die: The Doctor's Anguish
393
5
Miles J. Edwards
Susan W. Tolle
The Last Words of My English Grandmother
398
1
William Carlos Williams
Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making
399
4
Timothy E. Quill
Informed Demand for "Non-Beneficial" Medical Treatment
403
4
Steven H. Miles
The Case of Helga Wanglie: A New Kind of "Right to Die" Case
407
3
Marcia Angell
PART V MEDICAL CARE FINANCING, RATIONING, AND MANAGED CARE
410
100
Introduction
410
5
Larry R. Churchill
1 Medical Care Financing
415
45
Paying for Medical Care in America
415
31
Donald L. Madison
Reforming the Health Care System: The Universal Dilemma
446
14
Uwe E. Reinhardt
2 Rationing: The Dilemmas of Fair Distribution
460
21
The "Rationing" of Medical Care
461
3
Victor R. Fuchs
The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation
464
5
George J. Annas
Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Canada
469
6
Jafna L. Cox
Rationing in Practice: The Case of In Vitro Fertilisation
475
6
Sharon Redmayne
Rudolf Klein
3 Managed Care and the Physician's Changing Role
481
29
Hippocrates and the Health Maintenance Organization: A Discussion of Ethical Issues
482
9
Gail Povar
Jonathan Moreno
Physicians and Business Managers: A Clash of Cultures
491
4
Arnold S. Relman
Preserving the Physician-Patient Relationship in the Era of Managed Care
495
5
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Nancy Neveloff Dubler
Bibliography
510
4
Acknowledgment of Copyrights
514
3
Index to Authors
517