Since the appearance of Waitzkin's The Second Sickness, a landmark book of the 1980s, American medicine has been dramatically transformed. Waitzkin's earlier edition used qualitative research to take readers inside the "black box" of medical decision making. This new, fully updated and expanded edition retains the earlier edition's vivid approach and adds timely analysis of how managed care and other economic and social forces influence medical practice today.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 2 Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 3 Preface to the First Edition and Acknowledgments
Part 4 I: Medicine, Social Structure, and Social Pathology
Chapter 5 1. Health Care, Social Contradictions, and the Dilemmas of Reform
Chapter 6 2. Social Structures of Medical Oppression
Chapter 7 3. The Social Origins of Illness: A Neglected History
Part 8 II: Problems in Contemporary Health Care
Chapter 9 4. Technology, Health Costs, and the Structure of Private Profit
Chapter 10 5. Social Medicine and the Community
Chapter 11 6. The Micropolitics of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Part 12 III: Policy, Practice, and Social Change
Chapter 13 7. Medicine and Social Change: Lessons from Chile and Cuba
Chapter 14 8. Conclusion: Health Praxis, Reform, and Political Struggle
Chapter 15 Notes
Chapter 16 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 17 Index
Chapter 18 About the Author
