Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality

Name: Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality
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ISBN: 9780822335931

ISBN-10: 082233593X

ISBN-13: 9780822335931

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Gail E. Henderson, Sue E. Estroff, Larry R. Churchill, Jonathan Oberlander, Ronald P. Strauss

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This is the significantly revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader, now divided into three volumes to facilitate use by different audiences with varying interests. Volume 2 focuses on definitions and experiences of difference and disability, the social categories used to predict disease outcomes, and the reasons that some groups have more limited access to healthcare services than others.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 8/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition


Introduction


Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality




Defining and Experiencing Difference


Defining the Defective: Eugenics, Aesthetics, and Mass Culture in Early 20th-Century America



Extra Chromosomes and Blue Tulips: Medico-familial Interpretations



On Being a Cripple



Tell Me, Tell Me



Finch the Spastic Speaks




Social Factors and Inequality


Introduction to Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues



Unequal Treatment: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know about Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare



Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility to Clinical Settings



Coming to Terms with Advanced Breast Cancer: Black Women's Narratives from Eastern North Carolina



Women Get Sicker, but Men Die Quicker



Hormones for Men: Is Male Menopause a Question of Medicine or of Marketing?



The Five Sexes, Revisited



Case Study: Culture Clash Involving Intersex



The Meanings of "Race" in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research



White, European, Western, Caucasian, or What? Inappropriate Labeling in Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Health



Racial Profiling in Medical Research



I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor




Social Relationships and Sickness


"Where Crowded Humanity Suffers and Sickens": The Banes Family and Their Neighborhood