Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition

Jonathan Oberlander is Professor and Chair of Social Medicine and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.Mara Buchbinder is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.Larry R. Churchill is Professor of Medical Ethics Emeritus at Vanderbilt University.Sue E. Estroff is Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.Nancy M. P. King is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine.Barry F. Saunders is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and holds adjunct appointments in Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.Ronald P. Strauss is Dental Friends Distinguished Professor of Dental Ecology and Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.Rebecca L. Walker is Professor of Social Medicine, Core Faculty in the Center for Bioethics, and holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Philosophy, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

• Preface to the Third Edition  ixIntroduction  1Part I. Experiences of Illness and Clinician-Patient RelationshipsSilver Water / Amy Bloom  7"Is She Experiencing any Pain?": Disability and the Physician-Patient Relationship / S. K. Toombs  15The Cost of Appearances / Arthur Frank  20The Ship Pounding / Donald Hall  25God at the Bedside / Jerome Groopman  27The Use of Force / William Carlos Williams  32Sunday Dialogue: Conversations between Doctor and Patient / Rebecca Dresser  36What the Doctor Said / Raymond Carver  42Part II. Professionalism and the Culture of MedicineThe Learning Curve / Atul Gawande  45The Perfect Code / Terrence Holt  63Coeur d'Alene / Richard B. Weinberg  78The "Worthy" Patient: Rethinking the "Hidden Curriculum" in Medical Education / Robin T. Higashi, Allison Tillack, Michael A. Steinman, C. Bree Johnston, and G. Michael Harper  82How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgement and the Practice of Medicine / Kathryn Montgomery  95Healing Skills for Medical Practice / Larry R. Churchill and David Schenck  101The Hair Stylist, the Corn Merchant, and the Doctor: Ambiguously Altruistic / Lois Shepherd  111Necessary Accessories / Nusheen Ameenuddin  127The Critical Vocation of the Essay / Barry F. Saunders  132The Art of Medicine: Asthma and the Value of Contradictions/ Ian Whitmarsh  140Script / Mara Buchbinder and Dragana Lassiter  145Ordinary Medicine: The Power and Confusion of Evidence / Sharon R. Kaufman  149"Ethics and Clinical Research": The 50th Anniversary of Beecher's Bombshell / David S. Jones, Christine Grady, and Susan E. Lederer  154Part III. Health Care Ethics and the Clinician's RoleGlossary of Basic Ethical Concepts in Health Care and Research / Nancy M. P. King  167Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions / Larry R. Churchill, Nancy M. P. King, David Schenck, and Rebecca L. Walker  175Historical and Contemporary Codes of Ethics: The Hippocratic Oath, the Prayer of Maimonides, the Declaration of Geneva, and the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics  191Enduring and Emerging Challenges of Informed Consent / Christine Grady  197Teaching the Tyranny of the Form: Informed Consent in Person and on Paper / Katie Watson  212A Terrifying Truth / Rebecca Dresser  218The Lie / Lawrence D. Grouse  222Discharge Decisions and the Dignity of Risk / Debjani Mukherjee  224No One Needs to Know / Neil S. Calman  229Part IV. Death, Dying, and Lives at the MarginsForty Years of Work on End-of-Life Care: From Patients' Rights to Systemic Reform / Susan M. Wolf, Nancy Berlinger, and Bruce Jennings  239Try to Remember Some Details / Yehuda Amichai  249Failing to Thrive? / Kim Sue  251The Dead Donor Rule and Organ Transplantation / Robert D. Truog and Franklin G. Miller  259The Darkening Veil of "Do Everything" / Chris Feudtner and Wynne Morrison  263Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making / Timothy E. Quill  267Active and Passive Euthanasia / James A. Rachels  273Clinician-Patient Interactions about Requests for Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Patient and Family View / Anthony L. Back, Helene Starks, Clarissa Hsu, Judith R. Gordon, Ashok Bharucha, and Robert A. Pearlman  280My Father's Death / Susan M. Wolf  301Part V. Allocation and JusticeGlossary: Justice and the Allocation of Health Resources / Rebecca L. Walker and Larry R. Churchill  311Dead Man Walking / Michael Stillman and Monalisa Tailor  316Full Disclosure: Out-of-Pocket Costs as Side Effects / Peter A. Ubel, Amy P. Abernethy, and S. Yousuf Zafar  320Seven Sins of Humanitarian Medicine / David R. Welling, James M. Ryan, David G. Burris, and Norman M. Rich  325Who Should Receive Life Support during a Public Health Emergency? Using Ethical Principles to Improve Allocation Design / Douglas B. White, Mitchell H. Katz, John M. Luce, and Bernard Lo  335About the Editors  353Index  355

"A must-read for health care professionals, these readings are provocative and invite critical social and moral analysis among health care professionals. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." - B. A. D'Anna (Choice)