The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition: Volume 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine (Social Medicine Reader)

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader . The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today & rsquo;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. The first edition of The Social Medicine Reader was a single volume. This significantly revised and expanded second edition is divided into three volumes to facilitate use by different audiences with varying interests. Praise for the 3-volume second edition of The Social Medicine Reader : & ldquo;A superb collection of essays that illuminate the role of medicine in modern society. Students and general readers are not likely to find anything better. & rdquo; & mdash;Arnold S. Relman, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Praise for the first edition: & ldquo;This reviewer strongly recommends The Social Medicine Reader to the attention of medical educators. & rdquo; & mdash;Samuel W. Bloom, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 3: Over the past four decades the American health care system has witnessed dramatic changes in private health insurance, campaigns to enact national health insurance, and the rise (and perhaps fall) of managed care. Bringing together seventeen pieces new to this second edition of The Social Medicine Reader and four pieces from the first edition, Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine draws on a broad range of disciplinary perspectives & mdash;including political science, economics, history, and bioethics & mdash;to consider changes in health care and the future of U.S. health policy. Contributors analyze the historical and moral foundation of today & rsquo;s policy debates, examine why health care spending is so hard to control in the United States, and explain the political dynamics of Medicare and Medicaid. Selections address the rise of managed care, its impact on patients and physicians, and the ethical implications of applying a business ethos to medical care; they also compare the U.S. health care system to the systems in European countries, Canada, and Japan. Additional readings probe contemporary policy issues, including the emergence of consumer-driven health care, efforts to move quality of care to the top of the policy agenda, and the implications of the aging of America for public policy. Contributors: Henry J. Aaron, Drew E. Altman, George J. Annas, Robert H. Binstock, Thomas Bodenheimer, Troyen A. Brennan, Robert H. Brook, Lawrence D. Brown, Daniel Callahan, Jafna L. Cox, Victor R. Fuchs, Kevin Grumbach, Rudolf Klein, Robert Kuttner, Larry Levitt, Donald L. Madison, Wendy K. Mariner, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Jonathan Oberlander, Geov Parrish, Sharon Redmayne, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Michael S. Sparer, Deborah Stone Part I The Uninsured, Health Care Costs, and Public Programs. The U. S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowhere? / The U. S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowhere? / Jonathan Oberlander. Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health Care / Uwe E. Reinhardt. From Bismarck to Medicare? A Brief History of Medical Care Payment in America / Donald L. Madison. The Sad History of Health Care Cost Containment as Told in One Chart / Drew E. Altman and Larry Levitt. The Unsurprising Surprise of Renewed Health Care Cost Inflation / Henry J. Aaron. The Not-So-Sad History of Medicare Cost Containment as Told in One Chart / Thomas Bodenheimer. Medicaid and Medicare: The Unanticipated Politics of Public Insurance Programs / Lawrence D. Brown and Michael S. Sparer -- Part II Managed Care, Markets, and Rationing. Bedside Manna / Deborah Stone. Must Good HMOS Go Bad? The Commercialization of Prepaid Group Health Care / Robert Kuttner. Defending My Life / Geov Parrish. Business vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards for Managed Care / Wendy K. Mariner. The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation / George J. Annas. Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Canada / Jafna L. Cox. Rationing in Practice: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization / Sharon Redmayne and Rudolf Klein -- Part III International Perspectives and Emerging Issues. Reforming the Health Care System: The Universal Dilemma / Uwe E. Reinhardt. Health Care in Four Nations / Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach. Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda / Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Robert H. Brook. What's Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States? / Victor R. Fuchs. Luxury Primary Care? Market Innovation or Threat to Access? / Troyen A. Brennan. Correspondence: Response to Luxury Primary Care. Limiting Health Care for the Old / Daniel Callahan. Scapegoating the Aged: Intergenerational Equity and Age-Based Rationing / Robert H. Binstock. "Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality is the second of three volumes in the second edition of The Social Medicine Reader, a provocative and engaging survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers." "Ranging from a historical look at eugenics to an ethnographic description of parents receiving the news that their child has Down syndrome, from analyses of inequalities in the delivery of health services to an examination of the meaning of race in genomics research, and from a meditation on the loneliness of the long-term caregiver to a reflection on what children owe their elderly parents, this volume explores health and illness. Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality brings together seventeen pieces new to this edition of The Social Medicine Reader and five pieces that appeared in the first edition. It focuses on how difference and disability are defined and experienced in contemporary America, how the social categories commonly used to predict disease outcomes-such as gender, race and ethnicity, and social class-have become contested terrain, and why some groups have more limited access to health care services than others. Juxtaposing first-person narratives with empirical and conceptual studies, this compelling collection draws on several disciplines, including cultural and medical anthropology, sociology, and the history of medicine. Book jacket."--Jacket v. 1. Patients, doctors, and illness -- Nancy M.P. King ... [et al.], editors -- v. 2. Social and cultural contributions to health, difference, and inequality -- Gail E. Henderson ... [et al.], editors -- v. 3. Health policy, markets, and medicine-- Jonathan Oberlander ... [et al.], editors.

a Collection Of Readings—for Medical Students And Students Of Public Health— That Deal With Social And Cultural Issues In Medicine.