Social Medicine Reader, Volume II, 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  1Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Differences, and Inequalities / Sue E. Estroff and Gail E. Henderson  3Part I. Defining and Experiencing DifferencesBeyond Medicalisation / Nikolas Rose  31On Being a Cripple / Nancy Mairs  37What You Mourn / Sheila Black  48Physicians' Juries for Defective Babies / Helen Keller  50Blind, Deaf, and Pro-Eugenics: Helen Keller's Advice in Context / RaÚl Necochea LÓpez  52Tell Me, Tell Me / Irving Kenneth Zola  54Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man / Raymond Luczak  61I Have Diabetes. Am I to Blame? / Rivers Solomon  62Part II. Sickness amid RelationshipsTwisted Lies: My Journey in an Imperfect Body / Sherri G. Morris  67Raising a Woman / Mary Stainton  78The Sick Wife / Jane Kenyon  83The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver / Carol Levine  84Fathers and Sons / David Mason  92Parents Support Group / Dick Allen  93Part III. Social Factors and Inequalities"Doctors Don't Know Anything": The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health / Seth M. Holmes  97Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It / Arthur Kleinman and Peter Benson  116Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility to Clinical Settings / Linda M. Hunt  127The Racist Patient / Sachin H. Jain  132The Social Determinants of Health: Coming of Age / Paul Braverman, Susan Egerter, and David R. Williams  134Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine / Paul E. Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshaviee  156Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge / Jonathan M. Metzl and Dorthy E. Roberts  170Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They? / Lundy Braun, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Duana Fullwiley, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Alondra Nelson, William Quivers, Susan M. Reverby, and Alexandra E. Shields  188Taking Race Out of Human Genetics: Engaging a Century-Long Debate about the Role of Race in Science / Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob DeSalle, and Sarah Tishkoff  204Structural Racism and Health Inequalities in the United States of America: Evidence and Interventions / Zinzi D. Bailey, Nancy Krieger, Madina AgÉnor, Jasmine Graves, Natalia Linos, and Mary T. Bassett  209America's Hidden HIV Epidemic / Linda Villarosa  235Is the Prescription Opioid Epidemic a White Problem? / Helena Hansen and Julie Netherland  254Understanding Associations between Race, Socioeconomic Status and Health: Patterns and Prospects / David R. Williams, Naomi Priest, and Norman Anderson  258Can Disparities Be Deadly? Controversial Research Explores Whether Living in an Unequal Society Can Make People Sick / Emily Underwood  268Religion and Global Health / Peter J. Brown  275Part IV. Politics, Institutions, and CareThinking through the Pain / Keith Wailoo  297Unfinished Journey: The Struggle over Universal Health Insurance in the United States / Jonathan Oberlander  305On Incarceration and Health: Reframing the Discussion / Rahul Vanjani  314Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods / Peter Redfield  318About the Editors  341Index  343

"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)