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Part 1: The Social Production of Disease and Illness
The Social Nature of Disease
1. Medical Measures and the Decline of Mortality, John B. McKinlay and Sonja M. McKinlayWho Gets Sick? The Unequal Social Distribution of Disease
2. Social Class, Susceptibility, and Sickness, S. Leonard Syme and Lisa F. Berkman
*3. Understanding Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contribution, David R. Williams and Michelle Sternthal
*4. Sex, Gender, and Vulnerability, Rachel C. Snow
5. Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England, James Banks, Michael Marmot, Zoe Oldfield, and James P. Smith
*6. Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine, Paul E. Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee
Our Sickening Social and Physical Environments
*7. The Health Politics of Asthma: Environmental Justice and Collective Illness Experience in the United States, Phil Brown, Brian Mayer, Stephen Zavestoski, Theo Luebke, Joshua Mandelbaum, and Sabrina McCormick
8. Social Relationships and Health, James S. House, Karl R. Landis, and Debra Umberson
9. Dying Alone: The Social Production of Urban Isolation, Eric Klinenberg
*10. Greater Equality: The Hidden Way to Better Health and Higher Scores, Richard Wilkinson and Kate E. Pickett
The Social and Cultural Meanings of Illness
*11. Morality and Health: News Media Constructions of Overweight and Eating Disorders, Abigail C. Saguy and Kjerstin Gruys
*12. Illness Meaning of AIDS Among Women with HIV: Merging Immunology
and Life Experience, Alison Scott
13. Whose Deaths Matter? Mortality, Advocacy, and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media, Elizabeth Armstrong, Dan Carpenter, and Marie E. Hojnacki
The Experience of Illness
*14. Electronic Support Groups, Patient-Consumers, and Medicalization: The Case of Contested Illness, Kristin Barker
15. The Meaning of Medications: Another Look at Compliance, Peter Conrad
16. The Remission Society, Arthur W. Frank
Part 2: The Social Organization of Medical CareThe Rise and Fall of the Dominance of Medicine
17. Professionalization, Monopoly, and the Structure of Medical Practice, Peter Conrad and Joseph W. Schneider
18. Notes on the Decline of Midwives and the Rise of Medical Obstetricians, Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz
19. The End of the Golden Age of Doctoring, John B. McKinlay and Lisa D. Marceau
20. Countervailing Power: The Changing Character of the Medical Profession in the United States, Donald W. Light
Other Practitioners In and Out of Medicine
21. A Caring Dilemma: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective, Susan Reverby
22. From Quackery to ‘Complementary Medicine: The American Medical Profession Confronts Alternative Therapies, Terri A. Winnick
The Pharmaceutical Industry: The Case of Sexual Dysfunction
*23. From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Medicalization, Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter
24. The ‘Pinking of Viagra Culture: Drug Industry Efforts to Create and Repackage Sex Drugs for Women, Heather Hartley
Financing Medical Care
*25. Paying for Health Care, Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach
26. Doctoring as a Business: Money, Markets, and Managed Care, Deborah A. Stone
*27. The Cost Conundrum, Atul Gawande
Health Care Reform
*28. Sociology of Health Care Reform: Building Research and Analysis to Improve Health Care, David Mechanic and Donna D. McAlpine
*29. Rationing: Theory, Politics,and Passions, Daniel Callahan
*30. Historical and Comparative Reflections on the U.S. National Health Care Insurance Reforms, Donald W. Light
Medicine in Practice
31. The Struggle Between the Voice of Medicine and the Voice of the Lifeworld, Elliot G. Mishler
*32. Cultural Brokerage: Creating Linkages Between Voices of the Lifeworld and Medicine Across Cross-cultural Clinical Settings, Ming-Cheng Miriam Lo
33. Social Death as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Stefan Timmermans
34. The Language of Case Presentation, Renee R. Anspach
Dilemmas of Medical Technology
*35. MRI as Cultural Icon, Kelly Joyce
*36. “God Help You. Youre on Dialysis.”, Robin Fields
37. A Mirage of Genes, Peter Conrad
Part 3: Contemporary Critical Debates
The Relevance of Risk
*38. Vital Signs: State-Specific Obesity Prevalence Among Adults—United States, 2009, B. Sherry, H.M. Blanck, D.A. Galuska, L. Pan, and W.H. Dietz
39. Risk as a Moral Danger: The Social and Political Functions of Risk Discourse in Public Health , Deborah Lupton
The Medicalization of American Society
40. Medicine as an Institution of Social Control, Irving Kenneth Zola
41. The Shifting Engines of Medicalization, Peter Conrad
Part 4: Toward Alternatives in Health Care
Illness, Medicine, and the Internet
42. Illness and Internet Empowerment: Writing and Reading Breast Cancer in Cyberspace, Victoria Pitts
*43. Untangling the Web—Patients, Doctors and the Internet, Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman
Comparative Health Policies
44. Comparative Models ‘Health Care Systems, Donald W. Light
45. Health Care Reform: Lessons from Canada, Raisa Berlin Deber
*46. The British National Health Service: Continuity and Change, Jonathan Gabe
Prevention, Movements, and Social Change
47. A Case of Refocusing Upstream: The Political Economy of Illness, John B. McKinlay
48. Politicizing Health Care, John McKnight
*49. Embodied Health Movements, Phil Brown, Stephan Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Rebecca Altman