Perspectives in Medical Sociology

Phil Brown has designed this book to make discussion of the issues of medical sociology interesting, accessible, & challenging.

Preface to the Third Edition

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction to the Book

xiii

PART I The Social Context of Health and Illness

1

(192)

Social Inequality, Health, and Illness

3

(2)

Poverty and Ill Health: Physicians Can, and Should, Make a Difference

5

(16)

Michael McCally

Andrew Haines

Oliver Fein

Whitney Addington

Robert S. Lawrence

Christine K. Cassel

Race, SES, and Health: The Added Effects of Racism and Discrimination

21

(19)

David R. Williams

Women Get Sicker but Men Die Quicker: Gender and Health

40

(34)

Judith Lorber

Theories and Perspectives on Health and Illness

71

(3)

Naming and Framing: The Social Construction of Diagnosis and Illness

74

(30)

Phil Brown

Medicalization and Social Control

104

(26)

Peter Conrad

Experiences of Illness and Narrative Understandings

130

(16)

Susan E. Bell

Stress, Coping, and Social Supports

146

(11)

Leonard I. Pearlin

Carol S. Aneshensel

Environmental and Occupational Health

155

(2)

Popular Epidemiology and Toxic Waste Contamination: Lay and Professional Ways of Knowing

157

(25)

Phil Brown

Worker Health and Safety at the Beginning of a New Century

182

(11)

David Kotelchuck

Part II Being III and Getting Care

193

(256)

Experiencing Illness and Seeking Care

195

(3)

Pathways to the Doctor---From Person to Patient

198

(17)

Irving Kenneth Zola

The Genesis of Chronic Illness: Narrative Reconstruction

215

(27)

Gareth Williams

Life with AIDS

242

(14)

Rose Weitz

The Medical Management of Femininity: Women's Experiences with Silicone Breast Implants

256

(29)

Susan Zimmerman

Interaction and Negotiation Between Patients and Providers

283

(2)

The Social Organization of Illness

285

(10)

Eliot Freidson

Infantilization: The Medical Model of Care

295

(14)

Karen A. Lyman

Alternatives to Formal Medicine

307

(2)

The Meaning and Practice of Self-Care by Older Adults

309

(24)

Ann Dill

Phil Brown

Desiree Ciambrone

William Rakowski

Western Reflections on Eastern Medicine

333

(30)

Alexandra Dundas Todd

The Emergence of Alternative Medicine

363

(13)

Michael Goldstein

Technology, Experimentation, and Social Control

373

(3)

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

376

(13)

James Jones

Transplantation and the Medical Commons

389

(17)

Renee C. Fox

Judith P. Swazey

The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon

406

(19)

Dorothy Nelkin

Susan Lindee

Prenatal Diagnosis in Context

425

(24)

Barbara Katz Rothman

PART III The Health Care System

449

(212)

The Health Care Industry

451

(4)

What Is Managed Care?

455

(15)

Arnold Birenbaum

The Evolution of Investor-Owned Hospital Companies

470

(14)

Bradford H. Gray

The Origins and Rise of Managed Care

484

(20)

Donald W. Light

What Is Driving Health System Change?

504

(19)

Lynn Etheridge

Stanley B. Jones

Lawrence Lewin

Institutional Settings

521

(2)

The Rise of the Modern Hospital

523

(17)

Charles Rosenberg

The Patient in the Intensive Care Unit

540

(17)

Robert Zussman

Health Care Providers

553

(4)

The Growth of Medical Authority

557

(9)

Paul Starr

To Listen, To Recognize

566

(8)

Rita Charon

A Caring Dilemma: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective

574

(17)

Susan Reverby

Nurses' Role: Caring, Professionalism, and Subordination

591

(18)

Daniel Chambliss

Social Movements, Social Change, and Health

605

(4)

Democracy, Expertise, and AIDS Treatment Activism

609

(17)

Steven Epstein

Breathing Life into Ourselves: The Evolution of the National Black Women's Health Project

626

(6)

Byllye Y. Avery

Getting the Lead Out of the Community

632

(13)

Janet Phoenix

A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal

645

(16)

David U. Himmelstein

Steffie Woolhandler

Appendix 1: Sources of Data

661

(6)

Steven Jonas

Appendix 2: Annotated Bibliography of Journals in Medical Sociology and Related Areas

667

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