The Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition
by Jonathan Oberlander (Editor), Mara Buchbinder (Editor), Larry R. Churchill (Editor), Sue E. Estroff (Editor), Nancy M. P. King (Editor), Barry F. Saunders (Editor), Ronald P. Strauss (Editor), Rebecca L. Walker (Editor)
ISBN-10: 1478002816
ISBN-13: 9781478002819
$29.95
Book Specs
Trade Paper
Duke University Press Books
Published on
May 31, 2019
Edition
3rd Edition
Dimensions
6.00x1.00x9.25 Inches
Weight
1.10 Pounds
About the 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.
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.