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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Politics, Policy & Reform > The Social Medicine Reader: Health Policy, Markets and Medicine The Social Medicine Reader,
2nd Edition Volume I: Patients, Doctors, and
Illness Volume II: Social and Cultural
Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality Volume III: Health Policy, Markets
and Medicine About the Second Edition, Volumes I, II and III: Duke University Press has published its acclaimed second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader. The 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. The first edition of The Social Medicine Reader was a single volume. This significantly revised and expanded second edition is divided into three volumes to facilitate use by different audiences with varying interests. About Volume I: A woman with what is quite probably a terminal illness must choose between courses of treatment based on contradictory diagnoses. A medical student causes acute pain in his patients as he learns to insert a central line. One doctor wonders how to react when a patient asks him to pray with her; another struggles to come to terms with his mistakes. A physician writes in a prominent medical journal about facilitating a dying woman’s wish to end her life on her own terms; letters to the editor reflect passionate responses both in support of and in opposition to his actions. These experiences and many more are vividly rendered in Patients, Doctors, and Illness, which brings together nineteen pieces that appeared in the first edition of The Social Medicine Reader and eighteen pieces new to this edition. This volume examines the roles and training of health care professionals and their relationship with patients, ethics in health care, and end-of-life experiences and decisions. It includes fiction and nonfiction narratives and poetry; definitions and case-based discussions of moral precepts in health care, such as truth telling, informed consent, privacy, and autonomy; and readings that provide legal, ethical, and practical perspectives on many familiar but persistent ethical and social questions raised by illness and care. About Volume II: Ranging from a historical look at eugenics to an ethnographic description of parents receiving the news that their child has Downs syndrome, from analyses of inequalities in the delivery of health services to an examination of the meaning of race in genomics research, and from a meditation on the loneliness of the long-term caregiver to a reflection on what children owe their elderly parents, this volume explores heath and illness. Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality brings seventeen pieces new to this edition of The Social Medicine Reader together with five classic pieces that appeared in the first edition. It focuses on how difference and disability are defined and experienced in contemporary America, how the social categories commonly used to predict disease outcomes—such as gender, race and ethnicity, and social class—have become contested terrain, and why some groups have more limited access to healthcare services than others. Juxtaposing first-person narratives with empirical and conceptual studies, this compelling collection draws on several disciplines, including cultural and medical anthropology, sociology, and the history of medicine. About Volume III: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine is the third of three volumes in the second edition of The Social Medicine Reader, a provocative and engaging survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers. Over the past four decades the American health care system has witnessed dramatic changes in private health insurance, campaigns to enact national health insurance, and the rise (and perhaps fall) of managed care. Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine draws on a broad range of disciplinary perspectives - including political science, economics, history, and bioethics-to consider changes in health care and the future of U.S. health policy. Contributors analyze the historical and moral foundations of today's policy debates, examine why health care spending is so hard to control in the United States, and explain the political dynamics of Medicare and Medicaid. Selections address the rise of managed care, its impact on patients and physicians, and the ethical implications of applying a business ethos to medical care; they also compare the U.S. health care system to the systems in European countries, Canada, and Japan. Additional readings probe contemporary policy issues, including the emergence of consumer-driven health care, efforts to move quality of care to the top of the policy agenda, and the implications of the aging of America for health policy. “A superb collection of essays that illuminate the role of medicine in modern society. Students and general readers are not likely to find anything better.” —Arnold S. Relman, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School “This reviewer strongly recommends The Social Medicine Reader to the attention of medical educators.” —Samuel W. Bloom, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association The editors of The Social Medicine Reader include five current and one former member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. At UNC, Sue E. Estroff is a professor of social medicine and an adjunct professor of anthropology and psychiatry; Gail E. Henderson is a professor of social medicine and an adjunct professor of sociology; Nancy M. P. King is a professor of social medicine; Jonathan Oberlander is an associate professor of social medicine and an adjunct associate professor of political science; and Ronald P. Strauss is a professor of social medicine and Dental Friends Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Dental Ecology in the School of Dentistry. Larry R. Churchill holds the Ann Geddes Stahlman Chair in Medical Ethics in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. Contributors in this volume include: Henry J. Aaron, Drew E. Altman, George J. Annas, Robert H. Binstock, Thomas Bodenheimer, Troyen A. Brennan, Robert H. Brook, Lawrence D. Brown, Daniel Callahan, Jafna L. Cox, Victor R. Fuchs, Kevin Grumbach, Rudolf Klein, Robert Kuttner, Larry Levitt, Donald L. Madison, Wendy K. Mariner, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Jonathan Oberlander, Geov Parrish, Sharon Redmayne, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Michael S. Sparer, and Deborah Stone. If you are interested in policy or books about health care reform, please see our up-to-date collection here: Politics, Policy & Reform. 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