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Book SynopsisThe extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.
Trade Review"A must-read for health care professionals, these readings are provocative and invite critical social and moral analysis among health care professionals. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- B. A. D'Anna * Choice *
Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition ix
Introduction 1
Part I. Experiences of Illness and Clinician-Patient Relationships
Silver Water / Amy Bloom 7
"Is
She Experiencing any Pain?": Disability and the Physician-Patient Relationship / S. K. Toombs 15
The Cost of Appearances / Arthur Frank 20
The Ship Pounding / Donald Hall 25
God at the Bedside / Jerome Groopman 27
The Use of Force / William Carlos Williams 32
Sunday Dialogue: Conversations between Doctor and Patient / Rebecca Dresser 36
What the Doctor Said / Raymond Carver 42
Part II. Professionalism and the Culture of Medicine
The Learning Curve / Atul Gawande 45
The Perfect Code / Terrence Holt 63
Coeur d'Alene / Richard B. Weinberg 78
The "Worthy" Patient: Rethinking the "Hidden Curriculum" in Medical Education / Robin T. Higashi, Allison Tillack, Michael A. Steinman, C. Bree Johnston, and G. Michael Harper 82
How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgement and the Practice of Medicine / Kathryn Montgomery 95
Healing Skills for Medical Practice / Larry R. Churchill and David Schenck 101
The Hair Stylist, the Corn Merchant, and the Doctor: Ambiguously Altruistic / Lois Shepherd 111
Necessary Accessories / Nusheen Ameenuddin 127
The Critical Vocation of the Essay / Barry F. Saunders 132
The Art of Medicine: Asthma and the Value of Contradictions/ Ian Whitmarsh 140
Script / Mara Buchbinder and Dragana Lassiter 145
Ordinary Medicine: The Power and Confusion of Evidence / Sharon R. Kaufman 149
"Ethics and Clinical Research": The 50th Anniversary of Beecher's Bombshell / David S. Jones, Christine Grady, and Susan E. Lederer 154
Part III. Health Care Ethics and the Clinician's Role
Glossary of Basic Ethical Concepts in Health Care and Research / Nancy M. P. King 167
Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions / Larry R. Churchill, Nancy M. P. King, David Schenck, and Rebecca L. Walker 175
Historical and Contemporary Codes of Ethics: The Hippocratic Oath, the Prayer of Maimonides, the Declaration of Geneva, and the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics 191
Enduring and Emerging Challenges of Informed Consent / Christine Grady 197
Teaching the Tyranny of the Form: Informed Consent in Person and on Paper / Katie Watson 212
A Terrifying Truth / Rebecca Dresser 218
The Lie / Lawrence D. Grouse 222
Discharge Decisions and the Dignity of Risk / Debjani Mukherjee 224
No One Needs to Know / Neil S. Calman 229
Part IV. Death, Dying, and Lives at the Margins
Forty Years of Work on End-of-Life Care: From Patients' Rights to Systemic Reform / Susan M. Wolf, Nancy Berlinger, and Bruce Jennings 239
Try to Remember Some Details / Yehuda Amichai 249
Failing to Thrive? / Kim Sue 251
The Dead Donor Rule and Organ Transplantation / Robert D. Truog and Franklin G. Miller 259
The Darkening Veil of "Do Everything" / Chris Feudtner and Wynne Morrison 263
Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making / Timothy E. Quill 267
Active and Passive Euthanasia / James A. Rachels 273
Clinician-Patient Interactions about Requests for Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Patient and Family View / Anthony L. Back, Helene Starks, Clarissa Hsu, Judith R. Gordon, Ashok Bharucha, and Robert A. Pearlman 280
My Father's Death / Susan M. Wolf 301
Part V. Allocation and Justice
Glossary: Justice and the Allocation of Health Resources / Rebecca L. Walker and Larry R. Churchill 311
Dead Man Walking / Michael Stillman and Monalisa Tailor 316
Full Disclosure: Out-of-Pocket Costs as Side Effects / Peter A. Ubel, Amy P. Abernethy, and S. Yousuf Zafar 320
Seven Sins of Humanitarian Medicine / David R. Welling, James M. Ryan, David G. Burris, and Norman M. Rich 325
Who Should Receive Life Support during a Public Health Emergency? Using Ethical Principles to Improve Allocation Design / Douglas B. White, Mitchell H. Katz, John M. Luce, and Bernard Lo 335
About the Editors 353
Index 355
