The Social Medicine Reader

Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality is the second of three volumes in the second edition of The Social Medicine Reader, a provocative and engaging survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers.

Preface to the Second Edition

vii

Introduction

1

(3)

Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality

4

(25)

Sue E. Estroff

Gail E. Henderson

Part I Defining and Experiencing Difference

Defining the Defective: Eugenics, Aesthetics, and Mass Culture in Early 20th-Century America

29

(21)

Martin S. Pernick

Extra Chromosomes and Blue Tulips: Medico-familial Interpretations

50

(20)

Rayna Rapp

On Being a Cripple

70

(12)

Nancy Mairs

Tell Me, Tell Me

82

(7)

Irving Kenneth Zola

Finch the Spastic Speaks

89

(16)

Gordon Weaver

Part II Social Factors and Inequality

Introduction to Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

105

(18)

Paul Farmer

Unequal Treatment: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know about Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare

123

(10)

Brian D. Smedley

Adrienne Y. Stith

Alan R. Nelson

Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility to Clinical Settings

133

(4)

Linda M. Hunt

Coming to Terms with Advanced Breast Cancer: Black Women's Narratives from Eastern North Carolina

137

(27)

Holly F. Mathews

Donald R. Lannin

James P. Mitchell

Women Get Sicker, but Men Die Quicker

164

(27)

Judith Lorber

Hormones for Men: Is Male Menopause a Question of Medicine or of Marketing?

191

(11)

Jerome Groopman

The Five Sexes, Revisited

202

(9)

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Case Study: Culture Clash Involving Intersex

211

(7)

David Diamond

Sharon Sytsma

Alice Dreger

Bruce Wilson

The Meanings of ``Race'' in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research

218

(34)

Sandra Soo-Jin Lee

Joanna Mountain

Barbara A. Koenig

White, European, Western, Caucasian, or What? Inappropriate Labeling in Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Health

252

(11)

Raj Bhopal

Liam Donaldson

Racial Profiling in Medical Research

263

(5)

Robert S. Schwartz

I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor

268

(9)

Sally L. Satel

Part III Social Relationships and Sickness

``Where Crowded Humanity Suffers and Sickens'': The Banes Family and Their Neighborhood

277

(16)

Laurie K. Abraham

First-Person Account: Schizophrenia through a Sister's Eyes---The Burden of Invisible Baggage

293

(6)

Ami S. Brodoff

The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver

299

(8)

Carol Levine

What Do Children Owe Elderly Parents?

307

(14)

Daniel Callahan

Index to Authors

321

(1)

About the Editors

322

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