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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 | |