The Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition: Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine
edited by Jonathan Oberlander, Mara Buchbinder, Larry R. Churchill, Sue E. Estroff, Nancy M. P. King, Barry F. Saunders, Ronald P. Strauss and Rebecca L. Walker
Duke University Press, 2019 Cloth: 978-1-4780-0173-7 | eISBN: 978-1-4780-0435-6 | Paper: 978-1-4780-0281-9 Library of Congress Classification RA418.S6424 2019 v.1
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jonathan Oberlander is Professor and Chair of Social Medicine and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Mara Buchbinder is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Larry R. Churchill is Professor of Medical Ethics Emeritus at Vanderbilt University.
Sue E. Estroff is Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Nancy M. P. King is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine.
Barry F. Saunders is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and holds adjunct appointments in Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Ronald P. Strauss is Dental Friends Distinguished Professor of Dental Ecology and Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Rebecca L. Walker is Professor of Social Medicine, Core Faculty in the Center for Bioethics, and holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Philosophy, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
REVIEWS
"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 CONTENTS
Preface 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
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The Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition: Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine
edited by Jonathan Oberlander, Mara Buchbinder, Larry R. Churchill, Sue E. Estroff, Nancy M. P. King, Barry F. Saunders, Ronald P. Strauss and Rebecca L. Walker
Duke University Press, 2019 Cloth: 978-1-4780-0173-7 eISBN: 978-1-4780-0435-6 Paper: 978-1-4780-0281-9
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jonathan Oberlander is Professor and Chair of Social Medicine and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Mara Buchbinder is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Larry R. Churchill is Professor of Medical Ethics Emeritus at Vanderbilt University.
Sue E. Estroff is Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Nancy M. P. King is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine.
Barry F. Saunders is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and holds adjunct appointments in Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Ronald P. Strauss is Dental Friends Distinguished Professor of Dental Ecology and Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Rebecca L. Walker is Professor of Social Medicine, Core Faculty in the Center for Bioethics, and holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Philosophy, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
REVIEWS
"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 CONTENTS
Preface 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
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