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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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General Introduction | |
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The Social Production of Disease and Illness | |
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The Social Nature of Disease | |
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Medical Measures and the Decline of Mortality | |
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Who Gets Sick? The Unequal Social Distribution of Disease | |
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Social Class, Susceptibility, and Sickness | |
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Excess Mortality in Harlem | |
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Gender Differences in Mortality: Causes and Variation in Different Societies | |
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Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England | |
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Our Sickening Social and Physical Environments | |
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Popular Epidemiology: Community Response to Toxic Waste-Induced Disease | |
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Social Relationships and Health | |
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Dying Alone: The Social Production of Urban Isolation | |
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Health Inequalities: Relative or Absolute Material Standards? | |
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The Social and Cultural Meanings of Illness | |
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Anorexia Nervosa in Context | |
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AIDS and Stigma | |
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Whose Deaths Matter? Mortality, Advocacy, and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media | |
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The Experience of Illness | |
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Self-Help Literature and the Making of an Illness Identity: The Case of Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) | |
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The Meaning of Medications: Another Look at Compliance | |
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The Remission Society | |
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The Social Organization of Medical Care | |
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The Rise and Fall of the Dominance of Medicine | |
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Professionalization, Monopoly, and the Structure of Medical Practice | |
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Notes on the Decline of Midwives and the Rise of Medical Obstetricians | |
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The End of the Golden Age of Doctoring | |
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Countervailing Power: The Changing Character of the Medical Profession in the United States | |
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Other Practitioners In and Out of Medicine | |
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A Caring Dilemma: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective | |
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From Quackery to 'Complementary' Medicine: The American Medical Profession Confronts Alternative Therapies | |
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Medical Industries | |
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The Health Care Industry: Where Is It taking Us? | |
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The 'Pinking' of Viagra Culture: Drug Industry Efforts to Create and Repackage Sex Drugs for Women | |
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Financing Medical Care | |
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Why the United States Has No National Health Insurance: Stakeholder Mobilization Against the Welfare State, 1945-1996 | |
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Paying for Health Care | |
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Doctoring as a Business: Money, Markets, and Managed Care | |
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System Failure: The Uninsured | |
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Uninsured in America | |
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Young, Sick, and Part-Time: The Vulnerability of Youth and the New American Job Market | |
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Medicine in Practice | |
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The Struggle Between the Voice of Medicine and the Voice of the Lifeworld | |
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Social Death as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | |
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The Language of Case Presentation | |
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'Choosing Later' about Dialysis Treatment Near the End of Life | |
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Dilemmas of Medical Technology | |
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The Artificial Heart: How Close Are We and Do We Want to Get There? | |
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Issues in the Application of High Cost Medical Technology: The Case of Organ Transplantation | |
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A Mirage of Genes | |
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Contemporary Critical Debates | |
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The Relevance of Risk | |
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The Prevalence of Risk Factors Among Women in the United States | |
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Risk as a Moral Danger: The Social and Political Functions of Risk Discourse in Public Health | |
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The Medicalization of American Society | |
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Medicine as an Institution of Social Control | |
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The Shifting Engines of Medicalization | |
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Rationing Medical Care | |
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Rationing Medical Progress: The Way to Affordable Health Care | |
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The Trouble with Rationing | |
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Toward Alternatives in Health Care | |
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Community Initiatives | |
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Politicizing Health Care | |
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Helping Ourselves: The Limits and Potential of Self-Help | |
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Illness and Internet Empowerment: Writing and Reading Breast Cancer in Cyberspace | |
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Comparative Health Polices | |
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Comparative Models of 'Health Care' Systems | |
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Health Care Reform: Lessons from Canada | |
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The British National Health Service: Continuity and Change | |
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Prevention, Movements, and Social Change | |
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A Case of Refocusing Upstream: The Political Economy of Illness | |
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Embodied Health Movements: New Approaches to Social Movements in Health | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |