The social medicine reader /Patients, Doctors, and Illness
- 2nd ed.
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- 3 v. ; 24 cm.
Contents Preface to the Second Edition ix Introduction i Part I The Experience of Illness The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Mcdicine, Eric I. Cassell 7 Lilacs in September, Katha I'ollitt 21 DiahQtss, james Dickey 22 The Cost of Appearances, Arthm Frank 26 Betting Your Life, Alice Stewart Trillin 32 The Want of Control: Ideas and Ideals in the Management of Diabetes, Chri5 Feui/fner 41 Spencc + Lila, Bobbie Arin Mason 60 Silver Water, Amy Bloom 71 The Mother-in-Law, Doris Belts 80 Part II The Cultureof Medicine and the Physician-Patient Relationship Basic Clinical Skills: The First Encounters, Melvin Konner 89 The Learning Curve, Atiil Cuiwmidc 102 Case Study: The "Student Doctor" and a WaryPatient, Marc D. Basson. Gerald Dworkin, and Eric /. Cnssell 121 A Student's View of a Medical Teaching Exercise, Abenaa Brewster 127 Primum non tacere: An Ethics of Speaking Up, lames Dwyer 130 Perspective Shift, Daniel Shapiro 143 Facing Our Mistakes, David Hilflker 145 God at the Bedside, Jerome Groopman 154 Part ill Health Care Ethics and the Clinician's Role Glossary of Basic Ethical Concepts in Health Care and Research, Nancy M. P. King 161 Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions, Larry R. Churchill. Nancy M. P. King, and David Schenck 169 Historical and Contemporary Codes of Ethics; The Hippocratic Oath, Maimonides' Prayer, the Declaration of Geneva, and the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics 186 CaseStudy: Please Don't Tell!, Leonard Fleck and MarciaAngell 191 Invasions, Perri Klass 196 The UseofForce, William Carlos Williams 201 The Lie, Lawrence D. Grouse 205 Informed Consent, Cancer, and Truth in Prognosis, George /. Annas 208 Offering Truth: One Ethical Approach to the Uninformed Cancer Patient, Benjamin Freedman 216 What the Doctor Said, Raymond Carver 228 Part IV The End of Life A Man in His Life, Yehuda Amichai 230 End-of-Life Ethics; Some Common Definitions, Larry R. CburcbiU and Nancy M. P. King 232 Informed Demand for "Non-Beneficial" Medical Treatment, Steven H. Miles 235 TheCase ofHeiga Wanglie: ANew Kind of"Right to Die" Case, Marcia Angell 241 Disconnecting a Ventilator at the Request of a Patient Who Knows He Will Then Die: The Doctor's Anguish, Miles J. Edwards and Susan W.ToIle 246 The Promise, 5/in/on OWs 254 Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making, TimothyE. Quill 256 Correspondence: Death and Dignity: The Case of Diane 263 Doctor, I Want to Die. Will You Help Me? Timothy E. Quill 273 The Chain of Safety, Charles R. Feldstein 286 Try to Remember Some Details, Yehuda Amichai 288 Index to Authors 291 About the Editors 293