The social medicine reader / Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005Edition: 2nd edDescription: 3 v. ; 24 cmISBN: 0822335689 (v. 1 : pbk. : alk. paper); 082233593X (v. 2 : pbk. : alk. paper); 0822335697 (v. 3 : pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Social medicine | Social Medicine | Ethics, Clinical | Health Policy | Professional-Patient Relations | Sick Role | Socioeconomic Factors | Terminal CareDDC classification: 610
Contents:
Preface to the Second Edition vii Introduction 1 Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality, Sue E. Estroff and Gail E. Henderson 4 Part I Definingand Experiencing Difference Denning the Defective: Eugenics, Aesthetics, and Mass Culture in Early 20th-Century America, Martin S. Pernick 29 Extra Chromosomes and Blue Tulips: Medico-familial Interpretations, Rayna Rapp 50 On Being a Cripple, Ntmcy M airs 70 Tell Me, Tell Mc, Irving Kenneth Zola 82 Finch the Spastic Speaks, Gordon Weaver 89 Part II Social Factors and Inequality Introduction to Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Pltlgues, Paul Ftlrmer 105 Unequal Treatment: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know about Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare, Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson 123 Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility tu Clinical Settings, Linda M. Hunt 133 Coming to Terms with Advanced Breast Cancer: Black Women's Narratives from Eastern North Carolina, Holly F. Mathews. Donald R. Lcmnin, and fames P. Mitchell 137 Women Get Sicker, but Men Die Quicker, fudith Lorber 164 Hormones for Men: Is Male Menopause a Question of Medicine or of Marketing? ferome Groopme1n 191 The Five Sexes, Revisited, Anne Fausto-St erling 202 Case Study: Culture Clash lnvolving Intersex, De1vid Diamond. Sharon Sytsma, Alice Dreger, and Bruce Wilson 2 r 1 The Meanings of "Race" in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research, Sandra Soo-fjn Lee, foanna Mountain, and Barbara A. Koenig 218 White, European, Western, Caucasian, or What? Inappropriate Labeling in Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Health, Raj Bhopal and Liam Donaldson 252 Racial Profiling in Medical Research, Robert S. Schwartz 263 I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor, Sally L. Satel 268 Part Ill Social Relationships and Sickness "Where Crowded Humanity Suffers and Sickens": The Banes Family and Their Neighborhood, Laurie K. Abraham 277 First-Person Account: Schizophrenia through a Sister's Eyes­ The Burden of Invisible Baggage, Ami S. Brodoff 293 The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver, Carol Levine What Do Children Owe Elderly Parents? Daniel Callahan
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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.].

Preface to the Second Edition vii Introduction 1
Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality, Sue E. Estroff and Gail E. Henderson 4
Part I Definingand Experiencing Difference
Denning the Defective: Eugenics, Aesthetics, and Mass
Culture in Early 20th-Century America, Martin S. Pernick 29
Extra Chromosomes and Blue Tulips: Medico-familial Interpretations, Rayna Rapp 50
On Being a Cripple, Ntmcy M airs 70
Tell Me, Tell Mc, Irving Kenneth Zola 82 Finch the Spastic Speaks, Gordon Weaver 89

Part II Social Factors and Inequality
Introduction to Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Pltlgues, Paul Ftlrmer 105
Unequal Treatment: What Healthcare Providers Need
to Know about Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare,
Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson 123

Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility tu Clinical Settings, Linda M. Hunt 133
Coming to Terms with Advanced Breast Cancer:
Black Women's Narratives from Eastern North Carolina,
Holly F. Mathews. Donald R. Lcmnin, and fames P. Mitchell 137
Women Get Sicker, but Men Die Quicker, fudith Lorber 164
Hormones for Men: Is Male Menopause a Question of Medicine or of Marketing? ferome Groopme1n 191
The Five Sexes, Revisited, Anne Fausto-St erling 202
Case Study: Culture Clash lnvolving Intersex, De1vid Diamond. Sharon Sytsma, Alice Dreger, and Bruce Wilson 2 r 1
The Meanings of "Race" in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research, Sandra Soo-fjn Lee,
foanna Mountain, and Barbara A. Koenig 218
White, European, Western, Caucasian, or What? Inappropriate Labeling in Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Health,
Raj Bhopal and Liam Donaldson 252
Racial Profiling in Medical Research, Robert S. Schwartz 263
I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor, Sally L. Satel 268

Part Ill Social Relationships and Sickness
"Where Crowded Humanity Suffers and Sickens": The Banes Family and Their Neighborhood, Laurie K. Abraham 277
First-Person Account: Schizophrenia through a Sister's Eyes­ The Burden of Invisible Baggage, Ami S. Brodoff 293
The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver, Carol Levine
What Do Children Owe Elderly Parents? Daniel Callahan


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