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

ix

Introduction

1

(6)

Part I The Experience of Illness

The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine

7

(14)

Eric J. Cassell

Lilacs in September

21

(1)

Katha Pollitt

Diabetes

22

(4)

James Dickey

The Cost of Appearances

26

(6)

Arthur Frank

Betting Your Life

32

(9)

Alice Stewart Trillin

The Want of Control: Ideas and Ideals in the Management of Diabetes

41

(19)

Chris Feudtner

Spence + Lila

60

(11)

Bobbie Ann Mason

Silver Water

71

(9)

Amy Bloom

The Mother-in-Law

80

(9)

Doris Betts

Part II The Culture of Medicine and the Physician-Patient Relationship

Basic Clinical Skills: The First Encounters

89

(13)

Melvin Konner

The Learning Curve

102

(19)

Atul Gawande

Case Study: The ``Student Doctor'' and a Wary Patient

121

(6)

Marc D. Basson

Gerald Dworkin

Eric J. Cassell

A Student's View of a Medical Teaching Exercise

127

(3)

Abenaa Brewster

Primum non tacere: An Ethics of Speaking Up

130

(13)

James Dwyer

Perspective Shift

143

(2)

Daniel Shapiro

Facing Our Mistakes

145

(9)

David Hilfiker

God at the Bedside

154

(7)

Jerome Groopman

Part III Health Care Ethics and the Clinician's Role

Glossary of Basic Ethical Concepts in Health Care and Research

161

(8)

Nancy M. P. King

Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions

169

(17)

Larry R. Churchill

Nancy M. P. King

David Schenck

Historical and Contemporary Codes of Ethics: The Hippocratic Oath, Maimonides' Prayer, the Declaration of Geneva, and the Ama Principles of Medical Ethics

186

(5)

Case Study: Please Don't Tell!

191

(5)

Leonard Fleck

Marcia Angell

Invasions

196

(5)

Perri Klass

The Use of Force

201

(4)

William Carlos Williams

The Lie

205

(3)

Lawrence D. Grouse

Informed Consent, Cancer, and Truth in Prognosis

208

(8)

George J. Annas

Offering Truth: One Ethical Approach to the Uninformed Cancer Patient

216

(12)

Benjamin Freedman

What the Doctor Said

228

(2)

Raymond Carver

Part IV The End of Life

A Man in His Life

230

(2)

Yehuda Amichai

End-of-Life Ethics: Some Common Definitions

232

(3)

Larry R. Churchill

Nancy M. P. King

Informed Demand for ``Non-Beneficial'' Medical Treatment

235

(6)

Steven H. Miles

The Case of Helga Wanglie: A New Kind of ``Right to Die'' Case

241

(5)

Marcia Angell

Disconnecting a Ventilator at the Request of a Patient Who Knows He Will Then Die: The Doctor's Anguish

246

(8)

Miles J. Edwards

Susan W. Tolle

The Promise

254

(2)

Sharon Olds

Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making

256

(7)

Timothy E. Quill

Correspondence: Death and Dignity: The Case of Diane

263

(10)

Doctor, I Want to Die. Will You Help Me?

273

(13)

Timothy E. Quill

The Chain of Safety

286

(2)

Charles R. Feldstein

Try to Remember Some Details

288

(3)

Yehuda Amichai

Index to Authors

291

(2)

About the Editors

293

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Social Medicine Reader

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