* = new to this edition 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. McKinlay Who 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 Care The 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. You''re 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.