| The Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition: Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine Third Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Oberlander, Jonathan (Editor), Buchbinder, Mara (Editor), Churchill, Larry R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1478001739 ISBN-13: 9781478001737 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $102.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Education & Training - Medical | Public Health - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
| Dewey: 362.1 |
| LCCN: 2018044276 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.40 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |