Health and Health Care as Social Problems: : Elizabeth M. Armstrong: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Health and Health Care as Social Problems

Textbook

Health and Health Care as Social Problems

Textbook

Description

This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness are at least partly socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good and often brings with it serious social problems. The volume is organized into six sections, addressing the medicalization of human problems; the social construction of health problems; social movements; gender; race and class and the provision of health care; and medical accountability. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the depth and richness of a social problems approach to health and medicine, and the critical perspective it brings to our understanding of health and illness in U.S. society.

Chapter 1 1. Introduction
Part 2 I. MEDICALIZATION
Chapter 3 2. Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment
Chapter 4 3. Primum Non Nocere: Chemical Execution and the Limits of Medical Social Control
Chapter 5 4. From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical Categories
Part 6 II. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEALTH PROBLEMS
Chapter 7 5. The 'Discovery' of Child Abuse
Chapter 8 6. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as Medical Research Problem Since 1945
Chapter 9 7. Officer Ugg, Mr. Yuk, Uncle Barf...Ad Nausea: Controlling Poison Control,1950-1985
Part 10 III. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Chapter 11 8. Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement "Newness"
Chapter 12 9. Dynamics of Black Mobilization Against AIDS in New York City
Chapter 13 10. Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast Cancer
Part 14 IV. GENDER
Chapter 15 11. The Politics of Menopause: The "Discovery" of a Deficiency Disease
Chapter 16 12. Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender
Chapter 17 13. The Emergence of Premenstrual Syndrome as a Social Problem
Part 18 V. RACE, CLASS AND HEALTH CARE
Chapter 19 14. Race versus Class in the Health Care of African-American Elderly
Chapter 20 15. Lessons in Control: Prenatal Education in the Hospital
Part 21 VI. MEDICAL ACCOUNTABILITY
Chapter 22 16. Sick Doctors: The Social Construction of Professional Deviance
Chapter 23 17. Changing Doctor-Patient Relationships and the Rise in Concern for Accountability
Chapter 24 18. Changing Medical Practice and Medical Malpractice Claims