Health and Health Care As Social Problems

Name: Health and Health Care As Social Problems
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ISBN: 9780742528574

ISBN-10: 074252857X

ISBN-13: 9780742528574

Edition: 2003

Authors: Peter Conrad, Valerie Leiter, Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Michael Betz, Robert S. Broadhead

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This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.98" wide x 10.16" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Annemarie Goldstein Jutel is the director of research at the Graduate School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Elizabeth M. Armstrong is an assistant professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University.



Introduction




Medicalization



Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment




Primum Non Nocere: Chemical Execution and the Limits of Medical Social Control




From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical Categories




Social Construction of Health Problems



The "Discovery" of Child Abuse




Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as a Medical Research Problem since 1945




Officer Ugg, Mr. Yuk, Uncle Barf ... Ad Nausea: Controlling Poison Control, 1950-1985




Social Movements



Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement "Newness"




Dynamics of Black Mobilization against AIDS in New York City




Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast Cancer




Gender



The Politics of Menopause: The "Discovery" of a Deficiency Disease




Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender




The Emergence of Premenstrual Syndrome as a Social Problem




Race, Class, and Health Care



Race versus Class in the Health Care of African-American Elderly




Lessons in Control: Prenatal Education in the Hospital




Medical Accountability



Sick Doctors: The Social Construction of Professional Deviance




Changing Doctor-Patient Relationships and the Rise in Concern for Accountability




Changing Medical Practice and Medical Malpractice Claims



Sources


Index


About the Editors