Health and Health Care As Social Problems

, by Conrad, Peter; Leiter, Valerie; Armstrong, Elizabeth M.; Betz, Michael; Broadhead, Robert S.; Dull, Diana; Fielding, Stephen L.; Friedman, Samuel R.; Gamson, Josh; Haines, Herb; Hufbauer, Karl; Johnson, Michael P.; Klawiter, Maren; McCrea, Frances B.; Mor

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ISBN: 9780742528567 | 0742528561
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/22/2003

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This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Introduction

(6)

Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter

PART I: MEDICALIZATION

(60)

1 Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment

(16)

Joseph W. Schneider

2 Primum Non Nocere: Chemical Execution and the Limits of Medical Social Control

(14)

Herb Haines

3 From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical Categories

(28)

Peter Conrad and Deborah Potter

PART II: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEALTH PROBLEMS

(56)

4 The "Discovery" of Child Abuse

(18)

Stephen J. Pfohl

5 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as a Medical Research Problem since 1945

(20)

Michael P. Johnson and Karl Hufbauer

6 Officer Ugg, Mr. Yuk, Uncle Barf ... Ad Nausea: Controlling Poison Control, 1950-1985

107

(16)

Robert S. Broadhead

PART III: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

123

(66)

7 Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement "Newness"

125

(20)

Josh Gamson

8 Dynamics of Black Mobilization against AIDS in New York City

145

(16)

Ernest Quimby and Samuel R. Friedman

9 Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast Cancer

161

(28)

Maren Klawiter

PART IV: GENDER

189

(54)

10 The Politics of Menopause: The "Discovery" of a Deficiency Disease

191

(16)

Frances B. McCrea

11 Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender

207

(20)

Diana Dull and Candace West

12 The Emergence of Premenstrual Syndrome as a Social Problem

227

(16)

C. Amanda Rittenhouse

PART V: RACE, CLASS, AND HEALTH CARE

243

(52)

13 Race versus Class in the Health Care of African-American Elderly

245

(22)

Steven R. Wallace

14 Lessons in Control: Prenatal Education in the Hospital

267

(28)

Elizabeth M. Armstrong

PART VI: MEDICAL ACCOUNTABILITY

295

(58)

15 Sick Doctors: The Social Construction of Professional Deviance

297

(20)

Carol Klaperman Morrow

16 Changing Doctor-Patient Relationships and the Rise in Concern for Accountability

317

(14)

Michael Betz and Lenahan O'Connell

17 Changing Medical Practice and Medical Malpractice Claims

331

(22)

Stephen L. Fielding

Sources

353

(2)

Index

355

(14)

About the Editors

369

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