Medical sociology Books

Book SynopsisDrawing on the work of authors such as Oliver Sacks, Anatole Broyard, Norman Cousins, and Audre Lorde, as well as the people he met during the years he spent among different illness groups, the author recounts a collection of illness stories.

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Book SynopsisA radical new approach to health and caregiving in the age of COVID-19.Trade Review‘A powerful and beautiful tool for people and societies in movement. It helps us see how moments of crisis give rise to new forms of solidarity. It exemplifies what we as scholars, artists, and people in movements can do. Join this journey: you will be transformed' -- Marina Sitrin, editor of Pandemic Solidarity‘An imaginative intervention that proposes a collective model for health care as a process of political transformation. With the Covid-19 pandemic we have seen that the systems of care that prevail in capitalism do not work. 'The Hologram' offers an inspiring solution' -- Melanie Gilligan, artist and writer'What comes after Covid? How do we address the naked, class-based and racial inequalities exposed by the plague? Cassie Thornton proposes a healing hypothesis in 'The Hologram'. It could not come at a more necessary moment’ * Gregory Sholette, author of Dark Matter and Delirium and Resistance *Table of ContentsThe Fool Acknowledgments Foreword Preface: Artist’s Update 1. A Different Medicine is Possible: Visiting the Greek Solidarity Clinics 2. Is this the End or is this the Beginning? - A Four-Part Course in Social Holography Trust Wishes Time Patterns 3. The Practice 4. Wikipedia Entry from the Future 5. Feminist Economics and the People’s Apocalypse 6. Appendix I: Art, Debt, Health and Care: An Interview 7. Appendix II: Contextualizing The Hologram: Feminist Ethics, Post-Work Commons and Commons in Exile Notes The Ten of Swords

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book is a very valuable contribution… Highly recommended. -- Carol Joyce Blumberg * International Statistical Review *A well-written and thoughtful reflection on the doing of causal inference from one of causal inference’s noted experts. -- Jameson A. Quinn and Luke W. Miratrix * Journal of the American Statistical Association *The author’s voice is an important element in the book’s success. Rosenbaum is consistently clear and direct, and seems at times to be speaking directly to the reader. His excellent set of examples (twenty-five of them altogether) bring the more theoretical discussions to life. -- William J. Satzer * MAA Reviews *A treasure trove of considerations and strategies for making causal inferences from observational studies and experiments. The book is a joy to read and contains interesting material for readers at all levels of experience with causal inference. -- Dylan S. Small * Observational Studies *Rosenbaum is a gifted expositor, and as a result, this book is an outstanding introduction to the topic for anyone who is interested in understanding the basic ideas and approaches to causal inference. -- Joel B. Greenhouse and Edward H. Kennedy * Psychometrika *A researcher seeking instruction in the sophisticated use of [statistical significance] techniques may want to consult Observation and Experiment. -- James Ryerson * New York Times Book Review *Rosenbaum’s book is, as would be expected, a carefully and precisely written treatment of its subject, reflecting superb statistical understanding, all communicated with the skill of a master teacher. -- Stephen M. Stigler, author of The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom

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Disability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environmental, economic and legal factors which affect the experiences of those living with an impairment or illness in contemporary society. The book explores key introductory topics including: the diversity of the disability experience; disability rights and advocacy; ways in which disabled people have been treated throughout history and in different parts of the world; the daily realities of living with an impairment or illness; health, education, employment and other services that exist to support and include disabled people; ethical issues at the beginning and end of life. Disability: The Basics aims to provide readers with an understanding of the lived experiences of disabled people and highlight the continuing gaps

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Book SynopsisThere is no other book like this on the market for students that thoughtfully guides the reader through all social, personal and emotional aspects of health and illness. The topic is a cutting-edge and popular theme of current medical sociology.Trade Review"Bendelow offers an accessible and extremely enjoyable book for anyone intrigued by contemporary ideas surrounding the ill body." Sociology "This comprehensive book critically examines contemporary models of health and illness ... The book reminds us of the need to consider the individual experience of illness while seeing each person in his or her social context ... Of particular note is the straightforward reminder that illness is a social and emotional experience. The author reminds us that is the patient who should be diagnosed, not merely the disease. 5/5" Nursing Standard "A cogent and intelligent account of the implications of mind/body interactions for health." Sociology of Health and Illness "The quality of writing is high. Apart from the many case histories used to illustrate the points being made, Professor Bendelow gives many insightful observations on modern life and the way in which medical practitioners are responding." RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Journal "In this insightful, timely, and engaging book, Gillian Bendelow takes a fresh look at the relationship between physical and mental illness, and their treatment. Positing stress as the key to mind-body medicine, Bendelow’s analysis sheds much-needed light on key issues from medically unexplained symptoms to the surveillance implications of mind-body approaches. A must-read for anyone interested in the social dimensions of medicine, Health, Emotion and the Body charts the course to critical new areas of inquiry." Laura Carpenter, Vanderbilt University "Questions about the relationship between bodies, lives and medicine preoccupy all of us from time to time. In this accessible and very important book, Gillian Bendelow takes us through the critical issues underlying what medicine has to offer contemporary health problems. She identifies a paradigm shift, in which dualistic mind-body models and the dehumanizing and bureaucratic health care systems in which these are often embedded, are now widely understood as failing to provide any real understanding of how we live in and experience our bodies. Her arguments should be read by all those with an interest in humane health care (which is most of us, whether practitioners, users or students). The book is an elegant compendium of many different strands of thought, its conclusions a compelling directive for a more integrated approach." Ann Oakley, University of LondonTable of ContentsPreface. Chapter 1 Beyond Biomedicalization: Integrated Models of Health & Illness. Chapter 2 'Stress': the Key to Mind/Body?. Chapter 3 Medically Unexplained Symptoms and ‘Contested Conditions’. Chapter 4 Medical Responses to Emotional Distress. Chapter 5 Complementary Medicine and Alternative Healing Systems. Chapter 6 Holism or Healthism?. Bibliography

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Book Synopsis''Punchily written He leaves the reader with a sense of the gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly distributed'' Times Literary Supplement''Splendid and necessary'' Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New StatesmanThere are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries. But this is not a simple matter of rich and poor.A poor man in Glasgow is rich compared to the average Indian, but the Glaswegian's life expectancy is 8 years shorter. The Indian is dying of infectious disease linked to his poverty; the Glaswegian of violent death, suicide, heart disease linked to a rich country's version of disadvantage. In all countries, people at relative social disadvantage suffer health disadvantage, dramatically so. Within countries, the higher the social status of individuals the better is their health. These health inequalities defy usual explanations. Conventional approaches to improving health have emphasised Trade ReviewSplendid and necessary -- Henry Marsh, author of 'Do No Harm' * New Statesman *Michael Marmot was one of the most impressive people I worked with in my time as Health Secretary. He points out, with patience and precision, that there is nothing inevitable about health inequalities. This important book is a rarity – an astute academic analysis that entertains as much as it informs * Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP *Michael Marmot reveals that the average person would have eight extra years of healthy life if they had the same opportunities as the richest in our society … It’s time to stop seeing health as a matter of lifestyle choice and start campaigning for justice – for all our sakes * Observer *Punchily written … He leaves the reader with a sense of the gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly distributed -- Bee Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *The animating idea behind Marmot’s life work is that social injustice is bad for our health. His research over the years has generated a catalogue of shocking headline findings, which are collected in this book to devastating effect … But Marmot is no doom-monger. Quite the opposite … this is a fundamentally optimistic book * Independent *A vitally important book * Literary Journal *Dr. Marmot weaves a masterful treatise on world financial and trade policy * New York Journal of Books *I love books with a quietly revolutionary flavour. Michael Marmot’s The Health Gap is welcome as a stealth take-down of the UK’s passion for austerity ... Give it to any finance ministers you may know (or right-wing relatives) * New Scientist *

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Book SynopsisOne Sunday in February 1987, protesters stood outside the Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst in Massachusetts, whose minister planned to hand out condoms during his sermon, dramatizing the need for the church to confront the AIDS crisis. The minister gave out nearly five hundred condoms as the audience exploded into applause. But he could not hang around to enjoy it; having received threats in advance of the service, he dashed out of the sanctuary immediately. Thus was the climate for religious AIDS activism in the mid-1980s. After the Wrath of God is the first book to tell the story of American religion and the AIDS epidemic. Anthony Petro shows how religious leaders and organizations posited AIDS as a religious and moral epidemic, and analyzes how this construction has informed cultural and political debates about public health and sexual morality. While most attention to religion and AIDS foregrounds the role of the Religious Right, this book examines the much broader-and moreTrade Review[O]f interest to graduate students in the social sciences. * Mary Jo Iozzio, Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion ; 1) Emerging Morality: American Christians, Sexuality, and AIDS ; 2) Governing Authority: C. Everett Koop and the Moral Politics of Public Health ; 3) Ecclesiastical Authority: AIDS, Sexuality, and the American Catholic Church ; 4) Protest Religion!: ACT UP, Religious Freedom, and the Ethics of Sex ; Afterword: We "Other Christians" ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisSocial epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences -- and in many cases defines -- the fundamental determinants of health. This link was substantiated in the first edition of Social Epidemiology, and the generation of research that followed has fundamentally changed the way we understand epidemiology and public health. This much-awaited second edition elevates the field again, first by codifying the last decade of research, then by extending it to examine how public policies impact health. The new edition includes: 11 fully updated chapters, including entries on the links between health and discrimination, income inequality, social networks, and emotion Four all-new chapters on the role of policies in shaping health, including how to translate evidence into action with multi-level interventions Updated references, detailing the best research over the last two decadesThe result is a bold, brilliant text that will serve the new world of epidemiology in which scientists bTrade ReviewAn extraordinary work of scholarship. Its excellence provides assurance that it will become a classic. * Leon Eisenberg, New England Journal of Medicine *[Social Epidemiology] is brilliant. * Journal of Public Health Medicine *In providing a resource that explicates the social determinants of illness and helps the reader to understand the impact of social organization and structure of health and access to healthcare, the editors make this book a valuable contribution to the literature on psychosocial epidemiology. * Doody's *Provocative and stimulating... a great resource. * International Journal of Epidemiology *An important book, and a critical and timely addition to the field. * The Epidemiology Monitor *Table of ContentsForeword ; Leonard Syme ; Chapter 1 ; A Historical Framework for Social Epidemiology: Social Determinants of Population Health ; Lisa F. Berkman and Ichiro Kawachi ; Chapter 2 ; Socioeconomic Status and Health ; M. Maria Glymour, Mauricio Avendano, and Ichiro Kawachi ; Chapter 3 ; Discrimination and Health Inequities ; Nancy Krieger ; Chapter 4 ; Income Inequality ; Ichiro Kawachi and SV Subramanian ; Chapter 5 ; Working Conditions and Health ; Lisa F. Berkman, Ichiro Kawachi, And Tores Theorell ; Chapter 6 ; Labor Markets, Employment Policies, and Health ; Mauricio Avendano and Lisa F. Berkman ; Chapter 7 ; Social Network Epidemiology ; Lisa F. Berkman and Aditi Krishna ; Chapter 8 ; Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Health ; Ichiro Kawachi and Lisa F. Berkman ; Chapter 9 ; Affective States and Health ; Laura D. Kubzansky, Ashley Winning, and Ichiro Kawachi ; Chapter 10 ; Changing Health Behaviors in a Social Context ; Cassandra Okechukwu, Kirsten Davison, and Karen Emmons ; Chapter 11 ; Experimental Psychosocial Interventions ; Thomas A. Glass, Amii M. Kress, and Lisa F. Berkman ; Chapter 12 ; Policies as Tools for Research and Translation in Social Epidemiology ; M .Maria Glymour ; Chapter 13 ; Applications of Behavioral Economics to Improve Health ; Ichiro Kawachi ; Chapter 14 ; Biological Pathways Linking Social Conditions and Health: Plausible Mechanisms and Emerging Puzzles ; Laura D. Kubzansky, Teresa E. Seeman, M .Maria Glymour ; Chapter 15 ; From Science to Policy ; Michael Marmot and Jessica Allen

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Book SynopsisMigraine is a disabling, and painful disorder that affects over 36 million Americans. Nevertheless, it is frequently dismissed, ignored, and delegitimized. The author argues that this general dismissal of migraine can be traced back to the gendered social values embedded in the way we talk about, understand, and make policies for people in pain.Trade Review"Kempner's incisive work analyzes migraine medicine and its gendered subtext as practitioners sought to make sense of the mind/body actions or interactions causing the common, yet devastating pain of sufferers. The book is beautifully written, with a moving preface in which Kempner locates herself as a fellow migraine sufferer as well as ethnographic observer." (Linda Blum, Northeastern University)"

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Book SynopsisMigraine is a disabling, and painful disorder that affects over 36 million Americans. Nevertheless, it is frequently dismissed, ignored, and delegitimized. The author argues that this general dismissal of migraine can be traced back to the gendered social values embedded in the way we talk about, understand, and make policies for people in pain.Trade Review"Kempner's incisive work analyzes migraine medicine and its gendered subtext as practitioners sought to make sense of the mind/body actions or interactions causing the common, yet devastating pain of sufferers. The book is beautifully written, with a moving preface in which Kempner locates herself as a fellow migraine sufferer as well as ethnographic observer." (Linda Blum, Northeastern University)"

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Book SynopsisOffering both an extended history and a series of critical interventions organized around keywords like pain, privacy, and narcissism, this volume offers a more nuanced, empirically grounded picture of therapeutic culture than the one popularized by critics. It will change the way we've been taught to see the landscape of therapy and self-help.Trade Review"Engaging and thought-provoking, the seventeen essays included here do a fine job of suggesting that the therapeutic is indeed best understood as a uniquely American culture-one where institutions and individuals come together to shape values and ideals. Rethinking Therapeutic Culture strikes exactly the right tone to raise cogent questions about the meaning and context of therapeutics in the twenty-first century." (Wendy Kline, author of Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave)

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Book SynopsisOffers a nuanced, empirically grounded picture of therapeutic culture. This title includes both an extended history and a series of critical interventions organized around keywords like pain, privacy, and narcissism. It will change the way we've been taught to see the landscape of therapy and self-help.Trade Review"Engaging and thought-provoking, the seventeen essays included here do a fine job of suggesting that the therapeutic is indeed best understood as a uniquely American culture-one where institutions and individuals come together to shape values and ideals. Rethinking Therapeutic Culture strikes exactly the right tone to raise cogent questions about the meaning and context of therapeutics in the twenty-first century." (Wendy Kline, author of Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave)

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Book SynopsisWhen asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: back then we had few effective remedies, now we have more (and more powerful) tools to fight disease, from antibiotics to psychotropics to steroids to anticancer agents. This collection challenges the historical accuracy of this revolutionary narrative and offers instead a more nuanced account of the process of therapeutic innovation and the relationships between the development of medicines and social change. These assembled histories and ethnographies span three continents and use the lived experiences of physicians and patients, consumers and providers, and marketers and regulators to reveal the tensions between universal claims of therapeutic knowledge and the actual ways they have been used and understood in specific sites, from postwar West Germany pharmacies to twenty-first century Nigerian street markets. By asking us to rethink

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWombs in Labor is an absorbing and meticulously researched work. Amrita Pande fruitfully scrutinises the minutiae of interactions among surrogates and the community of a clinic for their underlying meaning... recommended to anyone interested in the subject of surrogacy and will please all readers. LSE Review of Books Wombs in Labor is an important book that sheds light on the workings of transnational commercial surrogacy in India... This book is a valuable read for anyone interested in commercial surrogacy, global inequality and women's labor. -- Koh Sin Yee Asian Review of Books A theoretically sophisticated and nuanced ethnography of interest to scholars in South Asian studies, women's studies, reproductive health, and labor studies. Choice At times heart-wrenching, Pande's ethnographic research provides a detailed and empathetic look at the business of India's surrogacy industry... Journal of International Womens Studies an excellent contribution to undergraduate or graduate classes on globalization, reproduction, gender, or work. -- Anna Curtis Gender and Society a fascinating look at the world of the Indian surrogate and the choice she makes in an effort to better her and her family's economic status. -- Sarah Thomas Journal of International Women's Studies Wombs in Labor is foundational. -- Rajani Bhatia Womens Review of Books Wombs in Labor is a valuable and timely contribution to the steadily increasing scholarship on assisted reproductive technologies and is a fascinating addition to the anthropology of work. Anthropology of Work Review A must-read for students of labor, gender, and reproductive politics. -- Sumit Guha H-AsiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Wombs in Labor 2. Pro-natal Technologies in an Anti-natal State 3. When the Fish Talk About the Water 4. Manufacturing the Perfect Mother-Worker 5. Everyday Divinities and God's Labor 6. Embodied Labor and Neo-eugenics 7. Disposable Workers and Dirty Labor 8. Disposable Mothers and Kin Labor 9. Conclusion: Aporia of Surrogacy Epilogue: Did the "Sperm on a Rickshaw" Save the Third World? Appendix A. Selected Clauses from the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Draft Bill Appendix B. Consent Form to Be Signed by Surrogates Appendix C. Descriptive Tables Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWombs in Labor is an absorbing and meticulously researched work. Amrita Pande fruitfully scrutinises the minutiae of interactions among surrogates and the community of a clinic for their underlying meaning... recommended to anyone interested in the subject of surrogacy and will please all readers. LSE Review of Books Wombs in Labor is an important book that sheds light on the workings of transnational commercial surrogacy in India... This book is a valuable read for anyone interested in commercial surrogacy, global inequality and women's labor. -- Koh Sin Yee Asian Review of Books A theoretically sophisticated and nuanced ethnography of interest to scholars in South Asian studies, women's studies, reproductive health, and labor studies. Choice At times heart-wrenching, Pande's ethnographic research provides a detailed and empathetic look at the business of India's surrogacy industry... Journal of International Womens Studies an excellent contribution to undergraduate or graduate classes on globalization, reproduction, gender, or work. -- Anna Curtis Gender and Society a fascinating look at the world of the Indian surrogate and the choice she makes in an effort to better her and her family's economic status. -- Sarah Thomas Journal of International Women's Studies Wombs in Labor is foundational. -- Rajani Bhatia Womens Review of Books Wombs in Labor is a valuable and timely contribution to the steadily increasing scholarship on assisted reproductive technologies and is a fascinating addition to the anthropology of work. Anthropology of Work ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Wombs in Labor 2. Pro-natal Technologies in an Anti-natal State 3. When the Fish Talk About the Water 4. Manufacturing the Perfect Mother-Worker 5. Everyday Divinities and God's Labor 6. Embodied Labor and Neo-eugenics 7. Disposable Workers and Dirty Labor 8. Disposable Mothers and Kin Labor 9. Conclusion: Aporia of Surrogacy Epilogue: Did the "Sperm on a Rickshaw" Save the Third World? Appendix A. Selected Clauses from the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Draft Bill Appendix B. Consent Form to Be Signed by Surrogates Appendix C. Descriptive Tables Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—'excellent and timely.' (The New Yorker) Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) historical epidemics, contemporary analyses, and cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines, bestselling author, physician, sociologist, and public health expert Nicholas A. Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of plague—an experience that is paradoxically uncommon to the vast majority of humans who are alive, yet deeply fundamental to our species.Unleashing new divisions in our society as well as opportunities for cooperation, this 21st-century pandemic has upended our lives in ways that will tes

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDoody's Core Titles® 2020 Essential Purchase "This is the third edition of a now-standard reference on a highly specialized subject. The author has thoroughly updated the material and, by adding new topics relevant to the changes in oncologic management and some specific techniques, has produced a book that amply justifies replacing the previous edition. It will be of value to specialists and trainees alike." -Carol Scott-Conner, MD, PhD, MBA (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics) Doody's Review Score: 91-4 Stars!Table of ContentsSECTION 1 Introduction 1 History of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 2 Applied Embryology of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands 3 Thyroid Physiology and Thyroid Function Testing SECTION 2 Benign Thyroid Disease 4 Thyroiditis 5 Thyroglossal Duct Cysts and Ectopic Thyroid Tissue 6 Surgery of Cervical and Substernal Goiter 7 Approach to the Mediastinum: Transcervical, Transsternal, and Video-Assisted 8 Surgical Management of Hyperthyroidism 9 Reoperation for Benign Thyroid Disease SECTION 3 Preoperative Evaluation 10 The Evaluation and Management of Thyroid Nodules 11 Fine-Needle Aspiration of the Thyroid Gland: The 2017 Bethesda System 12 Fine-Needle Aspiration and Molecular Analysis 13 Ultrasound of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands 14 Preoperative Radiographic Mapping of Nodal Disease for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma 15 Laryngeal Examination in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 16 Radiofrequency and Laser Ablation of Thyroid Nodules and Parathyroid Adenoma SECTION 4 Thyroid Neoplasia 17 Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Incidence 18 Molecular Pathogenesis of Thyroid Neoplasia 19 Papillary Thyroid Cancer 20 Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma 21 Papillary Carcinoma Observation 22 Follicular Thyroid Cancer 23 Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm With Papillary-Like Nuclear Features (NIFTP) 24 Dynamic Risk Group Analysis and Staging for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer 25 H?urthle Cell Tumors of the Thyroid 26 Sporadic Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma 27 Syndromic Medullary Thyroid Cancer: MEN 2A and MEN 2B 28 Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer and Primary Thyroid Lymphoma 29 Pediatric Thyroid Cancer 30 Familial Nonmedullary Thyroid Cancer SECTION 5 Thyroid and Neck Surgery 31 Principles in Thyroid Surgery 32 Robotic and Extracervical Approaches to the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands 33 Transoral Thyroidectomy 34 Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy 35 Surgical Anatomy and Monitoring of the Superior Laryngeal Nerve 36 Surgical Anatomy and Monitoring of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve 37 Surgery for Locally Advanced Thyroid Cancer: Larynx, Tracheal Invasion, and Esophageal 38 Central Neck Dissection: Indications and Technique 39 Lateral Neck Dissection: Indications and Technique 40 Incisions in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 41 Surgical Pathology of the Thyroid Gland SECTION 6 Postoperative Considerations 42 Pathophysiology of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injury 43 Management of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Paralysis 44 Nonneural Complications of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 45 Quality Assessment in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 46 Ethics and Malpractice in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery SECTION 7 Postoperative Management 47 Postoperative Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer 48 Postoperative Radioactive Iodine Ablation and Treatment of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer 49 External Beam Radiotherapy for Thyroid Malignancy 50 Reoperative Thyroid Surgery 51 Nonsurgical Treatment of Thyroid Cysts, Nodules, Thyroid Cancer Nodal Metastases, and Hyperparathyroidism: The Role of Percutaneous Ethanol Injection 52 Medical Treatment Horizons for Metastatic Differentiated and Medullary Thyroid Cancer SECTION 8 Parathyroid Surgery 53 Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Pathophysiology, Surgical Indications, and Preoperative Workup 54 Guide to Preoperative Parathyroid Localization Testing 55 Principles in Surgical Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism 56 Standard Bilateral Parathyroid Exploration 57 Minimally Invasive Single Gland Parathyroid Exploration 58 Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Parathyroidectomy 59 Intraoperative PTH Monitoring During Parathyroid Surgery 60 Surgical Management of Multiglandular Parathyroid Disease 61 Surgical Management of Secondary and Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism 62 Parathyroid Management in the MEN Syndromes 63 Revision Parathyroid Surgery 64 Parathyroid Carcinoma 65 Surgical Pathology of the Parathyroid Glands

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Book SynopsisMedical anthropology is playing an increasingly important role in public health. This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour. Public health policies and interventions are more likely to be effective if the beliefs and behaviour of people are understood and taken into account. The book examines: Concepts of culture Medical systems Patient's experience of illness and treatment The use of medicines and healing practices Public health and medical research Examples of particular health problems, such as HIV and malaria, are used to show how an anthropological approach can contribute to both a better understanding of health and illness and to more culturally compatible public health measures.Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.Table of ContentsOverview of the book Anthropology and cultureAnthropological perspectivesApproaches to medical anthropologyMedical systems and medical syncretismInterpreting and explaining sicknessSituating sickness and healthThe relationship between anthropology and biomedicineSubstances of powerLocal and global medicinesCultures, persons, bodiesMedical researchHealth interventions as a field of social practiceIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the second edition of An Introduction to the Geography of Health, Helen Hazen and Peter Anthamatten explore the ways in which geographic ideas and approaches can inform our understanding of health. The bookâs focus on a broad range of physical and social factors that drive health in places and spaces offers students and scholars an important holistic perspective on the study of health in the modern era.In this edition, the authors have restructured the book to emphasize the theoretical significance of ecological and social approaches to health. Spatial methods are now reinforced throughout the book, and other qualitative and quantitative methods are discussed in greater depth. Data and examples are used extensively to illustrate key points and have been updated throughout, including several new extended case studies such as water contamination in Flint, Michigan; microplastics pollution; West Africaâs Ebola crisis; and the Zika epidemic. The book contains more than Trade Review"This marvelous new edition of An Introduction to the Geography of Health is nothing less than a field guide to the world through the lens of health and medical geography. As human geographers, Hazen and Anthamatten grapple with the diversity of global societies, the complex drivers of inequalities in health, and the intricate ecologies of health and disease. The new edition is updated with valuable discussion of climate change and health, the 2014 Ebola fever epidemic in West Africa, the Flint water crisis, and the US opioid epidemic, while also incorporating advances in theory and method in the field of health and medical geography. Drawing on success stories from New Zealand, Costa Rica, and dozens of other countries, the book explains how a geographic sensibility—based on the careful appraisal of, and adaptation to, local social and environmental conditions—can lead to effective and equitable health policy. The inviting and highly readable text is accompanied by over 100 illustrations, including photographs, well-designed maps, and helpful diagrams and charts, many in color. In all, the book makes for an excellent companion to an undergraduate course in health and medical geography, a useful reference source, and an outstanding survey of public health issues all around the world." - Eric Carter, Edens Associate Professor of Geography and Global Health, Macalester College, USA"I am so delighted with the updated edition of Hazen and Anthamatten’s ‘An Introduction to the Geography of Health’, given the addition of new material reflective of both new and emerging events, such as the Zika virus and mental health patterns, respectively. I continue to use this text in my courses for three reasons: the breadth of contemporary applied material representative of the sub-discipline, the international coverage, and the range of current methodological approaches employed. I look forward to hearing positive student feedback on this new edition!" - Allison Williams, Professor & Research Chair, McMaster University, Hamilton, CanadaTable of Contents1 Introduction Section I Ecological Approaches to Human Health Introduction: Ecological Approaches to Human Health 2 Ecological Approaches to Human Health 3 Population-scale Processes: Demographic Change and the Evolution of Pathogens and Vectors 4 Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases 5 Environmental Exposures 6 Cartography and Geospatial Science in Health Section II Social Approaches to Health and Healthcare Introduction: Social Approaches to Health and Healthcare 7 Socioeconomic Environments 8 Culture and Identity 9 Power and Politics of Health 10 Geographies of Healthcare 11 Integrating Approaches to the Study of the Geography of Health: Policymaking from Geographic Perspectives Glossary Index

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Women occupy a privileged place in horror film. Horror is a space of entertainment and excitement, of terror and dread, and one that relishes the complexities that arise when boundaries of taste, of bodies, of reason are blurred and dismantled. It is also a site of expression and exploration that leverages the narrative and aesthetic horrors of the reproductive, the maternal and the sexual to expose the underpinnings of the social, political and philosophical othering of women. This book offers an in-depth analysis of women in horror films through an exploration of gynaehorror': films concerned with all aspects of female reproductive horror, from reproductive and sexual organs, to virginity, pregnancy, birth, motherhood and finally to menopause. Some of the themes explored include: the intersection of horror, monstrosity and sexual difference; the relationships between normative female (hetero)sexuality and the twin figures of the chaste virgin and the voracious vagina dentata<

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Book SynopsisDespite noteworthy exceptions, nursing's literature largely disregards the ways in which social and sociological theory permeates, guides and shapes research, education, and practice. Likewise, social theory's ability to position nursing within wider structures of healthcare and educational provision is similarly and puzzlingly downplayed. The questions nurses ask and the problems they face cannot however, adequately be addressed without engaging with social and sociological theory and, to progress this engagement, contributors to this book explore how social theories are used by and might apply to nursing and nursing practice. The book draws on a wide range of perspectives philosophical, theoretical, empirical and political to offer a robust and wide-ranging critique and analysis. Social Theory and Nursing is essential reading for nursing researchers, academics and educators, as well as scholars and researchers in medical sociology, medicine and allied health.Trade Review‘This text provides a timely resource for nurses undertaking research with a social theoretical dimension. All too frequently social theory receives insufficient attention in nursing research. Or, when discussed, very specific (often simplistic or incomplete) interpretations of social theory are offered. Contributors to this volume seek to redress this imbalance with concise explanations of key theorists and theories and, also, examples of the relevance of social theory to and in nursing practice. The book is highly recommended.’ - Bernie Garrett, University of British Columbia, Canada 'The strengths of the book include the diversity of scholarship involved from well-known contributors. The attempt to address theoretical misconceptions as they apply to nursing is to be highly commended. There is an urgent need for a much wider understanding of critical concepts to allow nurses to critique contextualise their practice, and this book goes a long way to doing so. I found myself highlighting sections and inwardly nodding away, for example Rolfe on C Wright Mills, Aranda on Feminism, Nairn on the Purpose and Scope of nursing and Porter on Critical Realism. It is about time! Those without any social science grounding might find this literature difficult, which is however kind of one of the points being addressed – the need for a more critical and deeper understanding of social theory and nursing. There was a recognition of the existence of an ‘alien’ literature in its preparation so this is a challenge. However, the chapters are diverse enough to allow readers to start where they feel comfortable before engaging in more challenging material. The wish to stimulate inquiry and discussion is laudable. This is a must read for those interested in the social sciences and nursing, and should be read more widely by the nursing community in general' - Benny Goodman, Plymouth University, UK‘This text provides a timely resource for nurses undertaking research with a social theoretical dimension. All too frequently social theory receives insufficient attention in nursing research. Or, when discussed, very specific (often simplistic or incomplete) interpretations of social theory are offered. Contributors to this volume seek to redress this imbalance with concise explanations of key theorists and theories and, also, examples of the relevance of social theory to and in nursing practice. The book is highly recommended.’ - Bernie Garrett, University of British Columbia, Canada 'The strengths of the book include the diversity of scholarship involved from well-known contributors. The attempt to address theoretical misconceptions as they apply to nursing is to be highly commended. There is an urgent need for a much wider understanding of critical concepts to allow nurses to critique contextualise their practice, and this book goes a long way to doing so. I found myself highlighting sections and inwardly nodding away, for example Rolfe on C Wright Mills, Aranda on Feminism, Nairn on the Purpose and Scope of nursing and Porter on Critical Realism. It is about time! Those without any social science grounding might find this literature difficult, which is however kind of one of the points being addressed – the need for a more critical and deeper understanding of social theory and nursing. There was a recognition of the existence of an ‘alien’ literature in its preparation so this is a challenge. However, the chapters are diverse enough to allow readers to start where they feel comfortable before engaging in more challenging material. The wish to stimulate inquiry and discussion is laudable. This is a must read for those interested in the social sciences and nursing, and should be read more widely by the nursing community in general' - Benny Goodman, Plymouth University, UKTable of ContentsForeword Introduction 1. Nursing Theory, Social Theory and Nursing Practice 2. Mechanistic Social Science and Middle Range Theory 3. Sociological Theory in Nursing Literature: A Threat to Professional Identity? 4. Lies, Damned Lies and Stories: Nursing and the Need for Border Controls 5. The Purpose and Scope of Social Theory: Implications for Nursing 6. Critical Realism: A Perspective Worthy of Consideration 7. Foucault, Social Theory and Nursing Research: A Critique 8. Accounting for Knowledgeable Practice 9. C Wright Mills: Lessons for Nurse Researchers 10. Feminist Theories: Silences and Absences 11. Contemporary Political Debates, Social Theory and Nursing Practice in Mental Healthcare 12. Triangulation, Sociological Theory and Nursing 13. Genre and the Nursing Research Article

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health offers the most comprehensive collection of theoretical and applied writings to date with which students, scholars, researchers and practitioners within the social and health sciences can systematically problematise the practices, priorities and knowledge base of the Western system of mental health. With the continuing contested nature of psychiatric discourse and the work of psy-professionals, this book is a timely return to theorising the business of mental health as a social, economic, political and cultural project: one which necessarily involves the consideration of wider societal and structural dynamics including labelling and deviance, ideological and social control, professional power, consumption, capital, neoliberalism and self-governance. Featuring original essays from some of the most established international scholars in the area, the Handbook discusses and provides updates on critical theories of mental health from labelling, social constructionism, antipsychiatry, Foucauldian and Marxist approaches to critical feminist, race and queer theory, critical realism, critical cultural theory and mad studies. Over six substantive sections, the collection additionally demonstrates the application of such theoretical ideas and scholarship to key topics including medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation, the DSM, global psychiatry, critical histories of mental health, and talk therapy. Bringing together the latest theoretical work and empirical case studies from the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Canada, the Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health demonstrates the continuing need to think critically about mental health and illness, and will be an essential resource for all who study or work in the field.Trade Review"The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health is a one-stop resource for those with a professional or academic interest in mental health […] Moreover, the book is very timely given the dominance of conservative approaches to mental health, the rise of neoliberal ideologies, and the increasing medicalisation of everyday life. This book is highly recommended for those with an interest in exploring critical perspectives to mental health and illness and would be a valuable resource for students, researchers or professionals in mental health or related fields." - Claire Moran, Feminism & Psychology"[Cohen’s chapter on Marxist theory] and many of the other chapters in the book provide useful summaries of aspects of critical mental health studies, perhaps particularly for students. The book can therefore be highly recommended." - Duncan Double, Psychreg Journal of Psychology"This book is well worth reading for the range and depth of its subject matter, and above all, for its determination to ask vital but troubling questions about the mental health treatment professions and whose interests they really serve." - Paul Moloney, The Psychologist Magazine"The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health provides a comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date portrayal of a wide variety of critical approaches toward psychiatry in a global context. It is an essential tool for all students, researchers, and clinicians who are interested in alternative models of the theory, history, politics, and professional practice of mental health and illness." - Allan V. Horwitz, Board of Governors Professor Sociology, Rutgers University, USA"Bruce Cohen has brought together a wide variety of critical scholarship on mental health issues in this new Routledge Handbook. Anyone seeking an overview of the diverse and often contradictory sorts of critique of psychiatric orthodoxy that have developed in the past half century will find this a provocative and enlightening volume." - Andrew Scull, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San DiegoTable of ContentsList of tables, Notes on contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, Introduction: the importance of critical approaches to mental health and illness (Bruce M. Z. Cohen), Part I Theoretical perspectives 1. Labelling theory (Stefan Sjöström) 2. The social construction of mental illness (Kevin White) 3. 'Mental health' praxis – not the answer: a constructive antipsychiatry position (Bonnie Burstow) 4. Foucauldian theory (Simone Fullagar) 5. Marxist theory (Bruce M. Z. Cohen) 6. Critical cultural theory (Sami Timimi) 7. Critical realism and mental health research (David Pilgrim) 8. A critical feminist analysis of madness: pathologising femininity through psychiatric discourse (Jane M. Ussher) 9. Critical race theory and mental health (Roy Moodley, Falak Mujtaba and Sela Kleiman) 10. Trapped in change: using queer theory to examine the progress of psy-theories and interventions with sexuality and gender (Shaindl Diamond) 11. Reflections on critical psychiatry (Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas) 12. Mad studies (Rachel Gorman and Brenda A. LeFrançois) Part II Critical histories of psychiatry 13. Madness: a critical history of 'mental health care' in the United States (Tomi Gomory and Daniel J. Dunleavy) 14. Medieval mysticism to schizoaffective disorder: the repositioning of subjectivity in the discourse of psychiatry (Alison Torn) 15. The myth of the Irish insanity epidemic (Damien Brennan) 16. Autism looping (Gil Eyal) Part III Medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation 17. The changing drivers of medicalisation (Meredith R. Bergey) 18. Female sexual dysfunction: medicalising desire (Annemarie Jutel and Barbara Mintzes) 19. Biomedicine, neoliberalism and the pharmaceuticalisation of society (Emma Tseris) Part IV The politics of diagnosis 20. The DSM and the spectre of ignorance: psychiatric classification as a tool of professional power (Owen Whooley) 21. The attributes of mad science (David Cohen, Tomi Gomory and Stuart A. Kirk) 22. Racialisation of the schizophrenia diagnosis (Suman Fernando) Part V Colonial and global psychiatry 23. The mad are like savages and the savages are mad: psychopolitics and the coloniality of the psy (China Mills) 24. Therapeutic imperialism in disaster- and conflict-affected countries (Janaka Jayawickrama and Jo Rose) 25. Problematising Global Mental Health (Clement Bayetti and Sumeet Jain) Part VI Critical approaches to therapy 26. A sociology of and in psychotherapy: the seventh sin (Peter Morrall) 27. Marxist theory and psychotherapy (Ian Parker) 28. A feminist critique of trauma therapy (Emma Tseris) 29. A journey into the dangers of orthodoxy from the former director of the Freud Archives (Jeffrey M. Masson) Index

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Book SynopsisComplementary and Alternative Medicine is a sociological investigation of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in contemporary society, and an exploration of the forces throughout the globe, across different institutions, and within different therapeutic spaces, that constrain or foster alternative medicine.Drawing on 30 years of research, the book identifies the trends in the use of CAM and explores the scientific, political and social challenges that CAM faces in relation to orthodox medicine. The author examines the varieties of CAM practices and how they manifest in different institutional spaces including public inquiries, the orthodox medical practitioner's consulting room, medical journals and the homes of those who use CAM. It also compares unorthodox practices in different geo-political settings, namely the global north and the global south.This book is valuable reading for higher-level undergraduate and postgraduate social science students, Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to complemenatary and alternative medicine and therapeutic pluralismChapter 2: State medicine, regulating practices and the creation of alternativesChapter 3: Disciplining and integrating practicesChapter 4: Adjusting to statist medicine and the manipulation of chiropracticChapter 5: Transformation, continuity and the ebb and flow of Chinese medicineChapter 6: Empire, tradition and the many therapeutic faces of IndiaChapter 7: The unregulated CAM user and the expansion of therapeutic possibilities Chapter 8: The fraught use of CAM in cancer careChapter 9: Incoherent forces: the disciplining and the unruliness of complementary and alternative therapies

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Book SynopsisPerson-centred health care is increasingly endorsed as a key element of high-quality care, yet, in practice, it often means patient-centred health care. This book scrutinizes the principle of primacy of patient welfare, which, although deeply embedded in health professionalism, is long overdue for critical analysis and debate. It appears incontestable because patients have greater immediate health needs than clinicians and the patient-clinician encounter is often recognized as a moral enterprise as well as a service contract. However, Buetow argues that the implication that clinician welfare is secondary can harm clinicians, patients and health system performance.Revaluing participants in health care as moral equals, this book advocates an ethic of virtue to respect the clinician as a whole person whose self-care and care from patients can benefit both parties, because their moral interests intertwine and warrant equal consideration. It then considers how to move from values Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: The Need for Change2. Clinician Care of the Patient3. Patient Self-care4. Clinician Self-care5. Patient Care of the ClinicianPart 2: Moving Forward6. From Patient-Centred to Person-Centred Health Care7. Person-centred Health Care: Values and Virtues8. Implementing Person-Centred Health Care

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Book SynopsisThis classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitionersâmidwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetriciansâto take a fresh look at the standard procedures that are routinely used to manage American childbirth. It was the first book to identify these non-evidence-based obstetric interventions as rituals that enact and transmit the core values of the American technocracy, thereby answering the pressing question of why these interventions continue to be performed despite all evidence to the contrary. This third edition brings together Davis-Floyd's insights into the intense ritualization of labor and birth and the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic models of birth with new data collected in recent years. Trade Review"A magnificent contribution to our understanding of birthing in this country." Emily Martin, author of The Woman in the Body"Davis-Floyd is a respectful listener who has encouraged her subjects to speak honestly about a complex experience. Consequently, even skeptical readers of the fascinating stories she has gathered should be prompted to reflect on the meaning of their own or their partners' experience of birth … I admire, without reservation, the generous, critical, passionate spirit that animates this book." Sara Ruddick, New York Times Book Review"Davis-Floyd has done an excellent job of demonstrating the linkages between American core values concerning technology and scientific expertise and prevailing obstetric practices. I especially value her use of women's voices to convey the essence of their delivery experiences." Carolyn Sargent, author of Maternity, Medicine, and PowerTable of ContentsAuthor‘s Note about the Cover Images, Dedication, Figure, Tables, Acknowledgments, Preface to the Third Edition, Introduction: Birth as a Rite of Passage, 1. Ritual and Rite, 2. The Stages of Matrescence: The Pregnancy/Childbirth/Postpartum Rite of Passage, 3. The Industrial and Technocratic Models of Birth and Health Care, 4. The Humanistic Model of Birth and Health Care, 5. Birth Messages in the Hospital, 6. How the Messages Are Received: The Spectrum of Response, 7. Scars into Stars: The Reinterpretation of the Childbirth Experience, 8. The Holistic Model of Birth and Health Care, 9. Birth Messages at Home: Homebirth as Holistic Ideology in Action,10. Technocracy in Birth and Life: Some Ritual and Political Implications for the Future, 11. Holism in Birth and Life: Some Ritual and Political Implications for the Future, Conclusion: Birth as an American Rite of Passage, References, Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how people encounter, understand, live with and respond to health risks associated with social, economic and political inequality. Complementing a traditional public health approach, the book moves beyond a focus on categories of morbidity and their structural causes. Instead, it focuses on everyday understandings and actions for people living in unequal social conditions. Making use of a variety of case studies related to physical and mental health, the authors emphasise interpersonal relationships, biographical meanings and the daily tactics of âgetting byâ. These are recurrently linked to the social-structural aspects of particular times and places.The book: Draws upon, applies and extends the biopsychosocial approach, which is well known to students of public health. Respects and gives due weight to the experience in context of people who live with health inequalities, in domestic and local settings. Explores notions of perTable of ContentsPreface 1.People who need people: A relational approach to living with inequalities 2.Living in the middle and living optimally 3.Feed the poor, eat the rich: Ingestion and inequality 4.Takes your breath away: Inequalities in respiratory health 5.Running up that hill: Living unequally with the meaning of sport and exercise 6.Ordinary distress and loneliness 7.Normal and abnormal suffering 8.Tired of living and scared of dying. 9.Pandemics: The great un-levelling. Index

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Book SynopsisThis book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in disability studies, childhood studies, medicine and health sciences, and sociology. It also provides insights that will be of use and value to professionals working with disabled children and adolescents in education, health and in disability-specific services.Opening with four narratives that offer the reader a window into the lived experience of disabled children, adolescents and their families, subsequent chapters explore a range of issues facing disabled children from early childhood through to late adolescence. Topics include family life, early intervention, inclusive and post-secondary education, the right to play, digital participation, the effects of labelling and matters relating to agency and sexuality.With chapters discussing research from Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden and the UK amongst others, this book:contributes to the exTable of Contents1.The Lives of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities: An Introduction. 2.Kia ora from Ralph. 3.Childhood: magic or misery? Childhood: happy or sad? 4.The Tale of the Dancing Eyes. 5.The Trouble with ‘Normal’: Finding hope through resistance. 6.Disabled Children’s Active Participation in Early Childhood Education: A story of love, rights and solidarity from Aotearoa New Zealand. 7.Positioning the Views of Children with Developmental Disabilities at the Centre of Early Interventions. 8.A Minority Within the Family: Disabled children and parental perceptions. 9.Nature Play for Disabled Children – Muddy puddles for all? 10.Disabled Children’s Recreational Uses of Digital Technologies in the Context of Children’s Digital Rights. 11.The Individual Education Programme: Who knows best? 12.Digital Participation and Competencies for Young People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities. 13.Autistic Youth as Active Agents for Societal Change. 14.'Normal, different, or something in between’. Young people with autism and Down syndrome and psycho-emotional disablism. 15.We are Sexual Too: Sexuality in the lives of disabled adolescents. 16.Challenges of the Somos Uno Más [We are one of the same] Programme in the Access to Higher Education and Preparation for Adulthood of Young Persons with Intellectual Disability in Mexico.

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Book SynopsisLocating assisted suicide within the broader medical end-of-life context and drawing on the empirical data available from the increasing number of permissive jurisdictions, this book provides a novel examination of the human rights implications of the prohibition on assisted suicide in England and Wales and beyond. Assisted suicide is a contentious topic and one which has been the subject of judicial and academic debate internationally. The central objective of the book is to approach the question of the ban's compatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights afresh; freed from the constraints of the existing case law and its erroneous approach to the legal issues and selective reliance on empirical data. The book also examines the compatibility of the ban on assisted suicide with rights which have either been erroneously disregarded or not considered by either the domestic courts or the European Court of Human Rights. Having regard to human rights jurisprudence more broadlTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1:The Legal Status of End-of-Life Practices: A Comparative Introduction Chapter 2: Protecting Life and Assisting Death: Is Not Allowing Assisted Suicide a Violation of the Right to Life? Chapter 3: Freedom from Torture or Inhuman or Degrading Treatment: Does the Prohibition on Assisted Suicide Constitute Ill-Treatment? Chapter 4: The Right to Choose the Manner and Timing of One's Death: A Re-examination of the Proportionality of the Ban on Assisted Suicide Chapter 5: Justifying the Ban on Assisted Suicide: The Empirical Evidence Chapter 6: Differential Treatment of End-of-Life Practices: Discrimination under Article 14 of the ECHRConclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that while notions of trauma in mental health hold promise for the advancement of women's rights, the mainstreaming of trauma treatments and therapies has had mixed implications, sometimes replacing genuine social change efforts with new forms of female oppression by psychiatry. It contends that trauma interventions often represent a business as usual approach within psychiatry, with women being expected to comply with rigid treatment protocols, accepting the advice given by trauma experts that they are mentally unstable and that they must learn to manage the effects of violence in the absence of any real changes to their circumstances or resources. A critique of trauma treatment in its current form, Trauma, Women's Mental Health, and Social Justice recommends practical steps towards a socio-political perspective on trauma which passionately re-engages with feminist values and activist principles. Table of Contents1. Introducing a Critical Perspective on Trauma 2. Interrogating Biomedical Dominance: Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Mental Health 3. The Mainstreaming of Trauma in Mental Health: Radical Critique, or Business as Usual? 4. Symptoms or Social Justice? Contested Understandings of Trauma 5. Dysfunctional and Responsible: Women’s Accounts of Therapeutic Responses to Gender-Based Violence 6. De-therapising Trauma: Negotiating the Contested Trauma Concept

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Book SynopsisSome fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point of view, various breakdowns are worth analyzing for their own sake, and discussing them also opens up overlooked dimensions of our bodily constitution. This book brings together different approaches that shed light on the phenomenology of the lived bodyâits normality and abnormality, health and sickness, its activity as well as its passivity. The contributors integrate phenomenological insights with discussions about bodily brokenness in philosophy, theology, medical science and literary theory. Phenomenology of the Broken Body demonstrates how the broken body sheds fresh light on the nuances of embodied experience in ordinary life and ultimately questions phenomenologyâs preunderstanding of the body.Table of ContentsIntroductionEspen Dahl, Cassandra Falke, Thor Eirik EriksenSection I: Vulnerable Bodies1. Weakness and Passivity: Phenomenology of the Body after PaulEspen Dahl2. The Vulnerable Body – Merleau-Ponty and PsychoanalysisStåle Finke3. Bodily Pain and the Breakdown of Language in Algerian Testimony and LiteratureAlexandra Megearu4. Framing Embodiment in Violent NarrativesCassandra FalkeSection II: Suffering Bodies5. Only Vulnerable Creatures Suffer: On Suffering, Embodiment and Existential HealthOla Sigurdson6. The Body Beyond Scientific Certainty – Brokenness, Uncanniness, AffectednessThor Eirik Eriksen7. No Way Out: A Phenomenology of PainChristian Grüny8. The Phenomenology of FatigueKatherine MorrisSection III: Recovery and Life´s Margins9. Suffering’s Double Disclosure and the Structure of Normality in ExperienceJames McGuirk10. Recovery as Re-attunement: Repairing the Body-World RelationshipDrew Leder11. Notes from a Heart AttackKevin Aho12. Broken PregnanciesTalia Welsh13. Dying Bodies and Dead Bodies: A Phenomenological Analysis of Dementia, Coma and Brain DeathFredrik Svenaeus

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Book SynopsisPhysical activity, inactivity and their relationship to health are serious concerns for governments around the world. This is the first book to critically examine the policy and practice of physical activity from a multi-disciplinary, social-scientific perspective. Moving beyond the usual biophysical and epidemiological approaches, it defines and explores the key themes that are shaping the global physical activity debate.Unrivalled in its scale and scope, it presents the latest data on physical activity from around the world, including case studies from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. Drawing on social, economic and behavioural sciences, it covers contexts from the global to the local and introduces the dominant ideas which inform the study of physical activity. Its 41 chapters examine the use of different forms of evidence in policymaking, the role of organisations in advocating physical activity, and the practical realities of public health interventions.Table of ContentsPART 1: Policy Issues in Physical Activity THEME A: Policy Concepts and Contexts 1. Concepts and Theories in Physical Activity Policy [Joe Piggin] 2. Putting Physical Activity on the Policy Agenda [Catherine Woods and Nanette Mutrie] 3. The Global Physical Inactivity Pandemic: An Analysis of Knowledge Production [Joe Piggin and Alan Bairner] 4. Is Exercise Medicine? [Dominic Malcolm and Emma Pullen] 5. Sport and Physical Activity for Health and Wellbeing: Choice and Competing Outcomes [Paul Downward] 6. The Imperative of Physical Activity in Public Health Policy and Practice [Louise Mansfield] THEME B: Evidence and Policy 7. The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of Biomedical Evidence to Inform Physical Activity Guidelines [Mike Weed] 8. Only Connect: How Social Science Can Improve Physical Activity Guidance [Tess Kay] 9. The Use of Behavioural Evidence in PA Policy: Is PA Policy Evidence Based? [Fiona Gillison and Fay Beck] 10. Tracing Translations: The Journey from Evidence to Policy to Physical Activity Promotion Campaigns [Jessica Lee, Benjamin Williams and Bernadette Sebar] 11. Measuring Physical Activity [Dale Esliger, Andrew Kingsnorth and Lauren Sherar] THEME C: Policy Communities and Physical Activity 12. Physical Activity and Mental Health: A Focus on Depression [Guy Faulkner and Markus Duncan] 13. Neighbourhood Accessibility and Active Travel [Hugh Barton, Michael Horswell and Paul Millar] 14. The Environment, Physical Activity, Recreation and the Outdoors [Barbara Humberstone, Heather Prince and Lois Mansfield] 15. Sport Policy [Pippa Chapman] 16. Young People, Physical Activity and ‘Active Play’ Promotion in Canada [Stephanie Alexander] 17. Education, Physical Education and Physical Activity Promotion [Andy Smith, Ken Green and Miranda Thurston] PART 2: Practices THEME D: People, Places and Physical Activity 18. Physical Activity and Ageing [Cassie Phoenix and Emmanuelle Tulle] 19. Girls, Women and Physical Activity [Philippa Velija and Louise Mansfield] 20. Disability and Physical Activity [Toni Williams and Brett Smith] 21. Physical Activity, Families and Households [John Day] 22. Workplace Physical Activity: Theory, Policy and Practice [David McGillivray] 23. Physical Activity in Schools [Jordan Smith, David Lubans and Rodney Lyn] 24. Physical Activity in Prisons [Mark Norman] THEME E: Understanding and Evaluating Practices and Programmes 25. Employing Voluntary Sports Organisations in the Implementation of Physical Activity Policy [Anna Aggestål and Josef Fahlén] 26. Physical Activity Opportunities for Young People: A Case Study of StreetGames [Carolynne Mason] 27. Schools, Corporations and Promotion of Physical Activity to Fight Obesity [Darren Powell and Michael Gard] 28. The Olympic Games and Physical Activity Promotion [Paul Bretherton and Billy Graeff] 29. The Role of Evaluation in School Sport Policy, Provision and Participation: Change4Life School Sports Clubs [Abby Foad and Michelle Secker] 30. Linking Physical Activity and Health Evaluation to Policy: Lessons from UK Evaluations [Andy Pringle, Jim McKenna and Stephen Zwolinsky] 31. Modelling the Cost Effectiveness of Physical Activity Interventions: The Case of GP Based Interventions [Nana Anokye] 32. Cycling: A Path to Physical Activity through Transportation, Sport and Leisure [Richard J. Buning and Heather J. Gibson] 33. ‘Will to Win’: The Darker Side of Elite Swimming [Jenny McMahon] PART 3: International Perspectives on Physical Activity Policy and Practice THEME F: Physical Activity Policy and Practice Around the World 34. The Arab Region [Mahfoud Amara] 35. Australia [Margaret Heffernan, Constantino Stavros, Kate Westberg, Angela Dobele and Aaron Smith] 36. Brazil [Thiago Hérick de Sá, Marco Almeida and Danielle Keylla Alencar Cruz] 37. The European Union [Mads de Wolff] 38. India [Aman Dhall] 39. South Africa [Tracey Kolbe Alexander and Vicki Lambert] 40. The United Kingdom [Emily Knox] 41. The United States of America [Sean Bulger, Emily Jones and Eloise Elliott]

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Book SynopsisHealth and illness are intensely personal matters. It seems self evident that health is a basic necessity of the ''good life'', though it is often taken for granted. Illness, on the other hand challenges our sense of security and may introduce acute anxiety into our lives. Health and Illness in a Changing Society provides a lively and critical account of the impact of social change on the experience of health and illness. It also examines the different sociological perspectives that have been used to analyse health matters. While some of the ideas developed in the last twenty years remain relevant to social research in health today, many are in need of urgent revision.Trade Review'An excellent guide. An extensive and distinguished teaching and research career gives Bury a unique vantage point from which to write this overview of the subject ... Bury charts a humane, scholarly and wise path through the complexities of social inequalities in health, relations between patients and their doctors and issues surrounding death and dying.' - Times Higher Education Supplement'This book is a simply structured, and thoughtful review of a discipline, written by someone who has taught it over the years ... in summarising the extensive literature, trends and debates of the 1990s (and incidentally by including italicised keywords and concepts), the book will be of great assistance to both the student and teacher of medical sociology.' - Sociology of Health and Illness'An ideal introduction to the sociology of health and illness, being clearly written and wide ranging.' - Medical Sociology News'Plenty of ideas and insights for all to investigate and reflect upon.' - Health MattersTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 From illness behaviour to health beliefs and knowledge; Chapter 3 Inequalities in health; Chapter 4 Doctors, patients and interaction in health care; Chapter 5 Chronic illness and disability; Chapter 6 Death and dying; Chapter 7 The body, health and risk;

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Book SynopsisCommunity care lies at the intersection of day-to-day life and the public world of service provision. Using the lens of one particular activity - bathing - this book explores what happens when the public world of professionals and service provision enters the lives of older and disabled people. In doing so it addresses wider issues concerning the management of the body, the meaning of carework and the significance of body care in the ordering of daily life.Bathing - the Body and Community Care provides an engaging text for students and will be of interest to a wide range of audiences, both social science and health science students and nursing and allied professionalsTable of ContentsPreface 1 The body in community care 2 Cultures of bathing and the body in High Modernity 3 Bathing, washing and the management of personal care 4 The spatial and temporal ordering of care 5 The medical/social boundary and the rationalisation of community care 6 The employment world of the careworker 7 Carework as bodywork 8 Carework as emotional labour 19 The power dynamics of care

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Book SynopsisIn this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization,Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself.Trade Review'Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization has been, without a shadow of a doubt, the most original, influential, and controversial text in this field during the last forty years. It remains as challenging now as on first publication.' -Roy PorterTable of ContentsIntroduction by David Cooper, Preface 1."Stultifera Navis" 2.The Great Confinement 3.The Insane 4.Passion and Delirium 5. Aspects of Madness 6.Doctors and Patients 7.The Great Fear 8.The New Division 9.The Birth of the Asylum, Conclusion, Notes

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging collection of both classic writings and more recent articles in the sociology of health and illness, this reader is organized into the following sections: * health beliefs and knowledge* inequalities and patterning of health and illness* professional and patient interaction* chronic illness and disability* evaluation and politics in health care. With a thorough introduction which sets the scene for the field as a whole, and section introductions which contextualize each chapter, the reader includes a number of different perspectives on health and illness, is international in scope, and will provide an invaluable resource to students across a wide range of courses in sociology and the social sciences.Table of Contents1. Health Beliefs and Knowledge 2. Inequalities and Patterning of Health and Illness 3. Professional and Patient Interactions 4. Chronic Illness and Disability 5. The Sociology of Evaluation and Politics of Health Care

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Book SynopsisComplementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a fascinating and fast-changing area of medicine. This book explores the challenging issues associated with CAM in the context of the social, political and cultural influences that shape people''s health. It: provides an overview of social change, consumption and debates arising from the increased public interest in CAM, arguing for and against different classifications discusses how CAM developed in a political and historical context, critically assessing the importance of ethics and values to CAM practice and how these inform what practitioners do analyzes the question of what people want, the changing contested nature of health, and the nature of personal and social factors associated with the use of CAM examines the diversity of settings in which CAM takes place explores the social, political and economic milieu in which CAM is provided and used. The book is one of threTable of ContentsPart 1: CAM Organisation: Safety and Standards 1. Knowledge, names, fraud and trust, Geraldine Lee-Treweek 2. Education and training in CAM, Lorraine Williams, Julie Stone and Geraldine Lee-Treweek 3. Regulation and control, Geraldine Lee Treweek 4. Political power and professionalisation, Mike Saks and Geraldine Lee-Treweek 5. Homoeopathy: principles, practice and controversies, Phil Nicholls, Geraldine Lee-Treweek and Tom Heller Part 2: Researching CAM 6. A critical look at orthodoxy medical approaches, Tom Heller, Dick Heller and Gavin Yamey 7. Understanding research, Hilary MacQueen, Sheena Murdoch and Andrew Vickers 8. Researching CAM interventions, Tom Heller 9. Evaluating CAM practice, Tom Heller, Dione Hills and Elaine Weatherly-Jones

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Book SynopsisThis book critically analyzes the place of caesarean in childbearing at the beginning of the twenty first century. It questions the changes that are taking place in childbirth and, in particular, the effects and implications of an increase in caesarean births. This controversial work by a practising midwife and researcher, includes discussion of: the context of the operation and description of it health systems around the world and their caesarean incidence rates decision-making and cultural/medical constraints the short and long term implications of caesarean for baby and mother. Using up-to-date research, Rosemary Mander bases her argument on a firm evidence-base and argues that the rapidly rising caesarean section rate may not be for the benefit of either the woman giving birth or her baby. Rather, the beneficiaries may actually be those professionals whose investment is in extending the range of their influence and thus iTrade Review"A meticulous and exhaustively referenced study…Rosemary Mander tackles evidence from randomised controlled trials as well as legend, myth and fiction, and throughout her book places the discussion surrounding Caesareans in a social context. This makes for a fascinating read." -- Sheila Kitzinger, birth activist and midwife"A short review cannot do justice to the book's richness, precision, and compassion. Rosemary Mander combines attention to language, meticulous organization of each topic, knowledge of medical issues, and critiques of available research and research methodology with a positive view of the benefits of midwifery and an accurate perception of women's rights and needs, among them comfort, appropriate care, attention to the whole picture, and truly informed consent. Implicit in the text is a plea for practitioners to reorient their studies, attitudes, and practice so as to meet those crucial needs." -- Jane Pincus, Co-Author of Our Bodies Ourselves, Birth, Vol. 35, No. 1, March 2008Table of Contents1. ‘The Game of the Name’ 2. What’s Being Asked and Why? Research into Caesarean 3. The Caesarean Operation - Issues and Debates 4. International Matters 5. Caesarean Decision-Making - Who’s Choosing? 6. The Immediate Implications of Caesarean 7. The Long Term Implications of Caesarean 8. The Significance of Trial of Labour and VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarean) 9. Conclusion

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Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a firmer conceptual and empirical footing. This new edition is updated throughout, reflecting Shakespeareâs most recent thinking, drawing on current research, and responding to controversies surrounding the first edition and the World Report on Disability, as well as incorporating new chapters on cultural disability studies, personal assistance, sexuality, and violence. Using a critical realist approach, Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include: dichotomies â going beyond dangerous polarizations such as medical model versus social model to achieve a complex, multi-factorial account of di

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Book SynopsisLooks at fascist constructions of health and illness, arguing that the metaphor of a healthy 'national body' - propagated by the Nazis as justification for the brutal elimination of various unwanted populations - continued to shape post-1945 discussions about the state of national culture.Trade ReviewThe German Patient provides an important historical back-drop and a richly specific cultural context for thinking about German guilt and responsibility after Hitler. An eminently readable and engaging text. - Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan ""This is a polished, eloquently written, and highly informative study speaking to the most pressing debates in contemporary Germany. The German Patient will be essential reading for anyone interested in mass death, genocide, and memory."" - Paul Lerner, University of Southern California

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Book SynopsisUrban slum dwellers - especially in emerging-economy countries - are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. This book exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy and reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents.Trade Review"Ultimately, the editors’ conviction in convening Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street is resoundingly clear: Scholars of all stripes have a responsibility “to recognize the human right of the urban poor to lead a healthy life and to offer some strategies toward this goal”. This volume moves us forward on both counts." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Refreshing and new, ... the volume offers an extremely helpful opening to a realm of medical science literature relating to informal settlements." * Latin America Research Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Prelude: Memoirs of a Kenya Slum Dweller Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Jason Corburn and Lee Riley Part One. Slum Health: Framing Research, Practice, and Policy 1. From the Cell to the Street: Coproducing Slum Health Jason Corburn and Lee Riley 2. Slum Health: Research to Action Alon Unger and Lee Riley 3. Frameworks for Slum Health Equity Jason Corburn 4. Urban Poverty: An Urgent Public Health Issue Susan Mercado, Kirsten Havemann, Mojgan Sami, and Hiroshi Ueda 5. Urban Informal Settlement Upgrading and Health Equity Jason Corburn and Alice Sverdlik Part Two. From The Cell to the Street: Slum Health in Brazil 101 6. Favela Health in Pau da Lima, Salvador, Brazil Alon Unger, Albert Ko, and Guillermo Douglass-Jaime 7. Impact of Environment and Social Gradient on Leptospira Infection in Urban Slums Renato B. Reis, Guilherme S. Ribeiro, Ridalva D. M. Felzemburgh, Francisco S. Santana, Sharif Mohr, Astrid X. T. O. Melendez, Adriano Queiroz, Andréia C. Santos, Romy R. Ravines, Wagner S. Tassinari, Marília S. Carvalho, Mitermayer G. Reis, and Albert I. Ko 8. Factors Associated with Group A Streptococcus emm Type Diversification in a Large Urban Setting in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study Sara Y. Tartof, Joice N. Reis, Aurelio N. Andrade, Regina T. Ramos, Mitermayer G. Reis, and Lee W. Riley Part Three. urban upgrading and health in nairobi, kenya 149 9. Coproducing Slum Health in Nairobi, Kenya Jason Corburn and Jack Makau 10. Sanitation and Women’s Health in Nairobi’s Slums Jason Corburn and Irene Karanja 11. Microsavings and Well-Being in a Nairobi Informal Settlement Jason Corburn, Jane Wairutu, Joseph Kimani, Benson Osumba, and Heena Shah Part Four. Understanding Slum Health in Urban India 12. Health Disparities in Urban India Siddharth Agarwal 13. Improved Health Outcomes in Urban Slums through Infrastructure Upgrading Neel M. Butala, Michael J. Van Rooyen, and Ronak Bhailal Patel Part Five. Knowledge Gaps and Future Considerations 14. Toward Slum Health Equity: Research, Action, and Training Jason Corburn and Lee Riley 275 List of Contributors Index 301

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Book SynopsisTakes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present).Trade Review"Stevenson explores how care in Inuit communities is like a raven, a spiritual force that binds the living and the dead in ways that are not always straightforward or obvious." -- G. Bruyere CHOICE "This courageous humanistic work is well worth a close and critical read, for the simple reason that its author, Lisa Stevenson, addresses one of the most important contemporary healthcare issues in the Canadian North-that of suicide- and along the way challenges the reader through been termed welfare colonialism and continues to struggle with a bureaucratic legacy determined by historical state structure and policy." American AnthropologistTable of ContentsPrologue: Between Two Women Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Facts and Images 2. Cooperating 3. Anonymous Care 4. Life-of-the-Name 5. Why Two Clocks? 6. Song Epilogue: Writing on Styrofoam Notes References List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal nuisance; it could kill millions of people. This book explores how American experts framed a catastrophe that never occurred.Trade Review"Caduff's detailed analysis of the sites, practices, and poetics of scientific authority and claim-making, in and through both uncertainties and indeterminacy, is uniquely insightful and compelling. His attentive, detailed, and discerning ethnography performs its own variety of dramatic work-the text itself is a delightful and gripping read. It is both an erudite collection of insights about that which goes into and makes up the contemporary world of 'scientific prophecy.' Caduff offers a surplus of generative ideas and his own brand of creativity and complexity in thinking through the politics of pandemic preparedness." Raad Fadaak, McGill University "In Carlo Caduff's brilliant ethnography The Pandemic Perhaps, we enter a world of delayed apocalypse. The HnNn mutation of the influenza virus is on the radar of the WHO; scientists prognosticate the next pandemic; preparedness measures are put in place by public health organizations; a flu vaccine is ready to be shipped by the pharmaceutical company. But, once more suspended, the pandemic does not happen today. To think about the intersection of scientific uncertainty and its relationship to the millennial public health message Caduff's The Pandemic Perhaps is just the right companion." Karen Jent, University of Cambridge "It is the strange serendipity of maternity leave that finds me reading 10:04 and The Pandemic Perhaps at odd hours and in tandem; two books for which hurricanes-or, more specifically, the preparations they precipitate-relay the condensed temporality of the coming catastrophe, a dovetailing of past perils and precarious futures for which a New York City 'on the brink' provides a hyperactive backdrop. Through often-exquisite prose (Lerner is a poet; Caduff's formulations can approximate verse) these authors explore the worlds that surface and dissolve under the shadow of prediction and the modes of attention that give them their shape." Ann Kelly, King's College London "I consider this book as a great contribution for the anthropology of life. Caduff's excellent investigation, both ethnographic and historical, offers a very convincing analysis of the material and conceptual configurations in which viruses are engaged, hence demonstrating the value of approaches which explore the agency of living beings and vital processes. He offers insightful ideas that shed new light on fundamental aspects of life. Focusing on the unique sort of beings viruses are, The Pandemic Perhaps constitutes, without any doubt, a very important work." Perig Pitrou, College de France "The Pandemic Perhaps presents a thoughtful ethnographic examination of the public culture of danger, specifically as the contemporary sense of impending doom has come to be linked ever more tightly to the assumed threat of a deadly influenza pandemic. More specifically still, it is a journey through the scientific, as well as governmental and corporate, reconstruction of the United States in the name of pandemic preparedness at a time when the biological world appears to be getting out of our control." Merrill Singer, Medical Anthropology Quarterly "Carlo Caduff's The Pandemic Perhaps is a story of the influenza pandemic that never was. Caduff tells this story from an American perspective through his encounters with scientists and other actors who engage in the august work of "preparedness," but in doing so, often draw upon and amplify an apocalyptic imaginary that doubtless shapes scientific and public priorities (and fears). With lucid and critical detail Caduff shows how forms of prophecy (new and old) push catastrophe towards further and further horizons." Todd Meyers, NYU Shanghai Caduff's book adds much to the history and social science of public health and infectious disease and will be of value to anyone interested in global health, influenza, or epidemiology. Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 * A Ferret's Sneeze 2 * On the Run 3 * Casualties of Contagion 4 * Experiments of Concern 5 * A Real Test 6 * The Great Deluge Epilogue Note on the Cover Image Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIf you're going to have an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a white, straight, middle-class male. This book takes on one of the few topics that haven't figured in the heated debate over health care reform - the largely hidden yet massive injustice of bias in medical treatment.Trade ReviewWhite, noted professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard University, addresses the pervasive but hidden problem of prejudice in medicine in this revealing book. He uses extensive research to show how subconscious stereotyping of Blacks, women, and other minorities influences the doctor–patient relationship and how many people, therefore, receive substandard treatment. -- Clarence Waldron * Jet *As vital to medicine as mapping the rhythm of the heart and the firing of the nerves is an understanding of the diversity of the human family. Gus White takes us on a marvelous personal journey that illuminates what it means to care for people of all races, religions, and cultures. The story of this man becomes the aspiration of all those who seek to minister not only to the body but also to the soul. -- Jerome Groopman, M.D., author of How Doctors ThinkGus White has written a tour de force—a compelling story about race, health and conquering inequality in medical care. Growing up in the segregated South, receiving medical training at all-white Stanford, caring for Americans and Vietnamese in Vietnam, Dr. White has a uniquely perceptive lens with which to see and understand unconscious bias in health care. He offers astute analysis and prescriptions for eliminating inequalities, and his journey is so absorbing that you will not be able to put this book down. -- Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., author of All Deliberate SpeedSeeing Patients is a powerful and extraordinarily important book. Dr. White uses his own experience to enable us to take a close look at the sensitive issue of bias in health care, and the damage it does. He knows from the inside how good people can be negatively affected by historical and cultural forces they are not even aware of. He acknowledges the magnitude and complexity of the problem, and encourages medical schools and physicians to work together to solve it. -- James P. Comer, M.D., author of Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s WorldThis is first and foremost the immensely enjoyable story of Gus White’s astonishing life’s journey. With all his achievements, he has not lost sight of his roots. Recruiting minorities into medicine has been one of his life’s priorities, and he has been a leader in promoting cultural literacy in all physicians. Seeing Patients is both exciting and insightful. -- Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolThe intertwining journeys of both orthopaedics and civil and human rights are chronicled in Dr. White’s life and career. Despite the progress made in these areas, unequal medical treatment in this country still exists due to biases, stereotypes, generalizations, language differences, and cultural barriers. -- Steven L. Frick, M.D. * AAOS Now *White’s story—part autobiography, part call to action—is a compelling and often uncomfortable read about a hidden world where even the most compassionate and egalitarian caregivers often fail a basic command of the Hippocratic oath: to do no harm. -- Sean Silverthorne * Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin *Armed by the unique perspective afforded by being both within the American medical establishment and an African American whose grit and talent put him there, highly respected Harvard Medical School professor White is a crystal-clear visionary. The best means to improve health care for all, he says, is for medical schools to produce physicians who are not only scientifically competent but also equally culturally competent… Part stirring autobiography, part reasoned apology for egalitarian health care, White’s book makes a powerful case. -- Donna Chavez * Booklist *White uses his unique insights to discuss health care disparities, making it timeless and a must-read book that has the power to change the way we see the world…As the coronavirus pandemic brings racial, economic, and health care disparities into stark focus, Seeing Patients impresses upon us the need to see each other as fellow humans. -- Mary E. Arthur * Anesthesia & Analgesia *In this autobiography, White, Harvard’s first African American department chief, writing with Chanoff, chronicles his experiences growing up in Tennessee and his professional journey through medical school. Along the way, readers are shown how racism has impacted and still affects African Americans and others in the medical profession and in the medical system in general. -- A. W. Klink * Library Journal *White grew up in Memphis during the Jim Crow era. Affected deeply by the blatant racial prejudice he encountered in the South, as a student in Ivy League universities, as a physician during the Vietnam War, and as an orthopedic surgeon, White offers a deeply personal account. Part autobiography, and part sociological treatise on issues including race, the book chronicles how White’s epiphany in Vietnam (‘When I came out of that carnage in Vietnam, I came out with an even stronger sense that in the final analysis we are all so much more similar than different’) led to his realization that ‘the persistent derogation of out-groups’ results in unequal treatment of many categories of people. This understanding inspired him to become an activist dedicated to increasing knowledge and awareness of diversity issues. A fascinating account of how White became a professor of medical education/orthopedic surgery and the first African American department chief at Harvard’s teaching hospital, this book explains such sociological principles as race, class, and in-group/out-group processes in clear, uncomplicated prose. His a very enjoyable account of the remarkable life of an individual who did what a lot of people say they want to do: make a difference. -- C. Apt * Choice *When White attended Stanford in the late ’50s he was one of four students of color. A recommendation letter written by a mentor then included ‘this is a pale, colored boy’ to avoid misunderstanding. Now White recounts his ground-breaking life in an engaging, matter-of-fact manner… A chance encounter with a woman who felt doctors judged her by her full-body tattoo led White to consider disparities in health care. Challenges exist on both sides of the stethoscope, White argues, noting that the uncertainty felt by many African-American patients over how they will be perceived also impacts the medical encounter; the burden for alleviating racial and other disparities (such as those based in age, gender, and sexual orientation) falls on the medical and educational communities. Accessible, thought-provoking, and valuable. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisThere is no other book like this on the market for students that thoughtfully guides the reader through all social, personal and emotional aspects of health and illness. The topic is a cutting-edge and popular theme of current medical sociology.Trade Review"Bendelow offers an accessible and extremely enjoyable book for anyone intrigued by contemporary ideas surrounding the ill body." Sociology "This comprehensive book critically examines contemporary models of health and illness ... The book reminds us of the need to consider the individual experience of illness while seeing each person in his or her social context ... Of particular note is the straightforward reminder that illness is a social and emotional experience. The author reminds us that is the patient who should be diagnosed, not merely the disease. 5/5" Nursing Standard "A cogent and intelligent account of the implications of mind/body interactions for health." Sociology of Health and Illness "The quality of writing is high. Apart from the many case histories used to illustrate the points being made, Professor Bendelow gives many insightful observations on modern life and the way in which medical practitioners are responding." RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Journal "In this insightful, timely, and engaging book, Gillian Bendelow takes a fresh look at the relationship between physical and mental illness, and their treatment. Positing stress as the key to mind-body medicine, Bendelow’s analysis sheds much-needed light on key issues from medically unexplained symptoms to the surveillance implications of mind-body approaches. A must-read for anyone interested in the social dimensions of medicine, Health, Emotion and the Body charts the course to critical new areas of inquiry." Laura Carpenter, Vanderbilt University "Questions about the relationship between bodies, lives and medicine preoccupy all of us from time to time. In this accessible and very important book, Gillian Bendelow takes us through the critical issues underlying what medicine has to offer contemporary health problems. She identifies a paradigm shift, in which dualistic mind-body models and the dehumanizing and bureaucratic health care systems in which these are often embedded, are now widely understood as failing to provide any real understanding of how we live in and experience our bodies. Her arguments should be read by all those with an interest in humane health care (which is most of us, whether practitioners, users or students). The book is an elegant compendium of many different strands of thought, its conclusions a compelling directive for a more integrated approach." Ann Oakley, University of LondonTable of ContentsPreface. Chapter 1 Beyond Biomedicalization: Integrated Models of Health & Illness. Chapter 2 'Stress': the Key to Mind/Body?. Chapter 3 Medically Unexplained Symptoms and ‘Contested Conditions’. Chapter 4 Medical Responses to Emotional Distress. Chapter 5 Complementary Medicine and Alternative Healing Systems. Chapter 6 Holism or Healthism?. Bibliography

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Book Synopsis* Explores the links between health and globalization. * Considers important issues such as the global spread of pandemics (such as swine flu and bird flu), effects of migration, and health care systems across the world.Trade Review"This book is an excellent contribution to our understanding of the extraordinarily complex relationship between globalization and health/illness as well as the positive and negative implications of this relationship. It also provides a most useful source of bibliographical materials on the subject."Mark Field, Harvard University "This book provides new, useful information on health, especially the idea of global public health and sections on health behavior. It is a great addition to the growing interests in global health."Jennie Kronenfeld, Arizona State University "This is an easy to read general introduction to the complex relationship between globalization and health. It is up to date and coversmany issues currently under debate in health policy and health care organization."Fred Stevens, Maastricht UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. Defining Globalization. Chapter 2. Globalization: Health Benefits and Risks. Chapter 3. Globalization and Disease. Chapter 4. Globalization and Health Care: The United States. Chapter 5. Globalization and Health Care in Selected Countries. Chapter 6. Actors in Global Health Governance. Chapter 7. Global Health and Governance: Public Goods and Collective Action. Concluding Remarks. References.

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Book Synopsis* Explores the links between health and globalization. * Considers important issues such as the global spread of pandemics (such as swine flu and bird flu), effects of migration, and health care systems across the world.Trade Review"This book is an excellent contribution to our understanding of the extraordinarily complex relationship between globalization and health/illness as well as the positive and negative implications of this relationship. It also provides a most useful source of bibliographical materials on the subject." Mark Field, Harvard University "This book provides new, useful information on health, especially the idea of global public health and sections on health behavior. It is a great addition to the growing interests in global health." Jennie Kronenfeld, Arizona State University "This is an easy to read general introduction to the complex relationship between globalization and health. It is up to date and coversmany issues currently under debate in health policy and health care organization." Fred Stevens, Maastricht UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. Defining Globalization. Chapter 2. Globalization: Health Benefits and Risks. Chapter 3. Globalization and Disease. Chapter 4. Globalization and Health Care: The United States. Chapter 5. Globalization and Health Care in Selected Countries. Chapter 6. Actors in Global Health Governance. Chapter 7. Global Health and Governance: Public Goods and Collective Action. Concluding Remarks. References.

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Mildred Blaxter''s successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the key debates surrounding the concept of health today. It discusses how health is defined, constructed, experienced and acted out in contemporary developed societies, drawing on a range of empirical data from the USA, Britain, France, and many other countries. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new material added on health and identity, the new genetics, the sociology of the body, and the formation of health capital throughout the life course. The topic is the concept of health, rather than the more usual emphasis on illness and health-care systems. Special emphasis is given to the lay perspective to show how people themselves think about and experience health. Blaxter guides students through all the relevant conceptual models of the relationship of health to the structure of society, from inequality in health to the ideas ofTrade Review"A great text: revised and updated for students of health, whatever their discipline or background. Changes in science, technology and our understanding of the body are among the many important topics covered. Mildred Blaxter writes in a lucid style and has a command of her material that is second to none. Highly recommended." Mike Bury, Royal Holloway, University of London "Updated and with new material, this book provides a fascinating insight into the phenomenon of health and how it is defined, constructed, expressed and experienced. Written in a clear and engaging style, it is an indispensable resource for students and researchers in the health and social sciences." Ellen Annandale, University of Leicester "This fine book takes sociological perspectives of health as a point of departure, while at the same time increasing our understanding of illness. Students and professionals alike will benefit from Blaxter's clear and succinct presentation." Peter Conrad, Brandeis UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. How is health defined? Health as the absence of illness. Disease as deviance. Health as balance or homeostasis. Health as function. Health as state or status. The biomedical model. Contemporary biomedicine. The social model. Health, disease, illness and sickness. How is health measured? Health capital. 2. How is health constructed? Health as social construction. Constructions of history. Constructions of culture. Constructivism and feminism. Illness, labelling and stigma. Constructions of mental illness. Constructions of disability. The critique of relativism. Medicalisation and the constructions of medical practice. 3. How is health embodied and experienced? Embodiment. Lay definitions of health. Social representations of health. Self-rated health. Concepts of the causes of health and illness. Health histories and subjective health capital. Illness narratives. Limitations of narrative. The search for meaning. Health as moral discourse and metaphor. Responsibility for health. 4. How is health enacted? The rise and fall of 'illness behaviour'. Person to patient: help-seeking behaviour. The patient role. Control and concordance. Enacted behaviour. Behaving 'healthily'. Structure/agency: health as cultural consumption. Structure/agency: health as self-governance. 5. How is health related to social systems? A functional relationship. Responses to functionalism. Medicine and society. Health, economic development and social organization. The downside of economic development. The concept of inequality in health. The nature and extent of inequalities. The causes of inequality. The socio-biologic translation. Neo-materialistic explanations. Social capital. 6. Contemporary change in the meaning of health. Technology and postmodernity. Changing boundaries between ill and not-ill. Changing boundaries of life and death. Changing boundaries between self and not-self. Changing boundaries between therapy and enhancement. Information technologies and medical practice. Changing attitudes to health and medicine. New technologies and the risk society. Evolutionary medicine. Conclusion. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Mildred Blaxter's successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the key debates surrounding the concept of health today.Trade Review"A great text: revised and updated for students of health, whatever their discipline or background. Changes in science, technology and our understanding of the body are among the many important topics covered. Mildred Blaxter writes in a lucid style and has a command of her material that is second to none. Highly recommended." Mike Bury, Royal Holloway, University of London "Updated and with new material, this book provides a fascinating insight into the phenomenon of health and how it is defined, constructed, expressed and experienced. Written in a clear and engaging style, it is an indispensable resource for students and researchers in the health and social sciences." Ellen Annandale, University of Leicester "This fine book takes sociological perspectives of health as a point of departure, while at the same time increasing our understanding of illness. Students and professionals alike will benefit from Blaxter's clear and succinct presentation." Peter Conrad, Brandeis UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. How is health defined? Health as the absence of illness. Disease as deviance. Health as balance or homeostasis. Health as function. Health as state or status. The biomedical model. Contemporary biomedicine. The social model. Health, disease, illness and sickness. How is health measured? Health capital. 2. How is health constructed? Health as social construction. Constructions of history. Constructions of culture. Constructivism and feminism. Illness, labelling and stigma. Constructions of mental illness. Constructions of disability. The critique of relativism. Medicalisation and the constructions of medical practice. 3. How is health embodied and experienced? Embodiment. Lay definitions of health. Social representations of health. Self-rated health. Concepts of the causes of health and illness. Health histories and subjective health capital. Illness narratives. Limitations of narrative. The search for meaning. Health as moral discourse and metaphor. Responsibility for health. 4. How is health enacted? The rise and fall of 'illness behaviour'. Person to patient: help-seeking behaviour. The patient role. Control and concordance. Enacted behaviour. Behaving 'healthily'. Structure/agency: health as cultural consumption. Structure/agency: health as self-governance. 5. How is health related to social systems? A functional relationship. Responses to functionalism. Medicine and society. Health, economic development and social organization. The downside of economic development. The concept of inequality in health. The nature and extent of inequalities. The causes of inequality. The socio-biologic translation. Neo-materialistic explanations. Social capital. 6. Contemporary change in the meaning of health. Technology and postmodernity. Changing boundaries between ill and not-ill. Changing boundaries of life and death. Changing boundaries between self and not-self. Changing boundaries between therapy and enhancement. Information technologies and medical practice. Changing attitudes to health and medicine. New technologies and the risk society. Evolutionary medicine. Conclusion. References. Index.

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