The social medicine reader

The 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 by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. Volume 1, Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine, contains essays, case studies, narratives, fiction, and poems that focus on the experiences of illness and of clinician-patient relationships. Among other topics the contributors examine the roles and training of professionals alongside the broader cultures of biomedicine; health care; experiences and decisions regarding death, dying, and struggling to live; and particular manifestations of injustice in the broader health system. The Reader is essential reading for all medical students, physicians, and health care providers.--

Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- Experiences of Illness and Clinician-Patient Relationships. Silver Water / Amy Bloom ; "Is She Experiencing Any Pain?" : Disability and the Physician-Patient Relationship / S.K. Toombs ; The Cost of Appearances / Arthur Frank ; The Ship Pounding / Donald Hall ; God at the Bedside / Jerome Groopman ; The Use of Force / William Carlos Williams ; Sunday Dialogue : Conversations between Doctor and Patient / Rebecca Dresser ; What the Doctor Said / Raymond Carver -- Professionalism and the Culture of Medicine. The Learning Curve / Atul Gawande ; The Perfect Code / Terrence Holt ; Coeur d'Alene / Richard B. Weinberg ; The "Worthy" Patient : Rethinking the "Hidden Curriculum" in Medical Education / Robin T. Higashi, Allison Tillack, Michael A. Steinman, C. Bree Johnston, G. Michael Harper ; How Doctors Think : Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine / Kathryn Montgomery ; Healing Skills for Medical Practice / Larry R. Churchill, David Schenck ; The Hair Stylist, the Corn Merchant, and the Doctor : Ambiguously Altruistic / Lois Shepherd ; Necessary Accessories / Nusheen Ameenuddin ; The Critical Vocation of the Essay / Barry F. Saunde…