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Author : Irving Kenneth Zola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877223030
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Socio-medical Inquiries written by Irving Kenneth Zola and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Michael Clair
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813158435
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Sociomedical Perspectives on Patient Care written by Jeffrey Michael Clair and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social change has placed new demands on the practice of medicine, altering almost every aspect of patient care relationships. Just as medicine was encouraged to embrace the biological sciences some 100 years ago, recent directives indicate the importance of the social sciences in understanding biomedical practice. Humanistic challenges call for changes in curative and technological imperatives. In this book, social scientists contribute to such challenges by using social evidence to indicate appropriate new goals for health care in a changing environment. This book was designed to stimulate and challenge all those concerned with the human interactions that constitute medical practice. To encompass a wide range of topics, the authors include researchers; practicing physicians from the specialties of family, general, geriatric, pediatric, and oncological medicine; social and behavioral scientists; and public health representatives. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, they explore the ethical, economic, and social aspects of patient care. These essays draw on past studies of the patient-doctor relationship and generate new and important questions. They address social behavior in patient care as a way to approach theoretical issues pertinent to the social and medical sciences. The authors also use social variables to study patient care and suggest new areas of sociomedical inquiry and new approaches to medical practice, education, and research. Its cross-disciplinary approach and jargon-free writing make this book an important and accessible tool for physician, scholar, and student.
Author : E. Richard Gold
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780878406616
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Body Parts written by E. Richard Gold and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Body Parts, E. Richard Gold examines whether the body and materials derived from it--such as human organs and DNA--should be thought of as market commodities and subject to property law. Analyzing a series of court decisions concerning property rights, Gold explores whether the language and assumptions of property law can help society determine who has rights to human biological materials. Gold observes that the commercial opportunities unleashed by advances in biotechnology present a challenge to the ways that society has traditionally valued the human body and human health. In a balanced discussion of both commercial and individual perspectives, Gold asserts the need to understand human biological materials within the context of human values, rather than economic interests. This perceptive book will be welcomed by scholars and other professionals engaged in questions regarding bioethics, applied ethics, the philosophy of value, and property and intellectual property rights. Given the international aspects of both intellectual property law and biotechnology, this book will be of interest throughout the world and especially valuable in common-law (most English-speaking) countries.
Author : Jill Manthorpe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134456646
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Age of the Inquiry written by Jill Manthorpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plethora of inquiry reports published in the fields of health and welfare in the 1990s covered the full range of user groups, individuals and institutions. What similarities or differences were there between these inquiries? How effective were they in bringing about change? Whose interest did they best serve? These are some of the questions The Age of the Inquiry explores in detail, bringing together distinguished contributors with personal experience of chairing or providing evidence to inquiries to consider: the participant's view of inquiries the purpose of inquiries the impact of inquiries on health and social policy inquiries into: child abuse and death; homicides by mental health service users; the abuse of adults with learning disabilities; the abuse of older people. Wide-ranging in scope, The Age of the Inquiry focuses on service and policy development. It provides an invaluable text for students, teachers and professionals from a wide range of disciplines and professional groups.
Author : Charles Derber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195365062
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Power in the Highest Degree written by Charles Derber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-06-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer, doctor, scientist--these are the jobs Americans commonly cite when asked to list the most prestigious occupations. The word "professional" today implies expertise, authority, and excellence. To do a job professionally is to do it well. Yet in a society in which knowledge has become a prized asset and an advanced degree the ticket to wealth and power, the rise of professionalism has a darker, more ominous side. Power in the Highest Degree, one of the most comprehensive studies of professionals ever undertaken, exposes professionalism as a double-edged sword; it illustrates how experts have come to "own" and control knowledge, much like the wealthy control capital, thereby transforming capitalist and socialist society, both for better and for worse. Knowledge long predates money as a source of power and wealth in human society, and professionals are only the most recent in a long succession of powerful knowledge classes that have included shaman, witchdoctors, and the Confucian mandarins who ruled China for over a thousand years. Drawing on interviews with over 1,000 practicing professionals, the authors show how, by dispensing self-interested and morally colored judgements as scientific truth, modern professionals are consolidating a monopoly over what passes for objective knowledge. Experts discredit the ordinary knowledge of the general public to generate a vast market of dependent clients. The result is a powerful professional class that creates vital new knowledge and life-saving services, but also wields growing influence over a population deeply insecure about its ability to manage private and public affairs without "expert" guidance. This sweeping study also reveals that more and more experts are abandoning private practice to work for corporations, becoming junior partners in a new "Mandarin capitalism." While often outspoken advocates of a more socially responsible business world, professionals have joined big business to produce one of the most pronounced divisions of mental and manual work in history, creating a new dispossessed majority, the uncredentialed. We learn of an experiment at Polaroid to give machine operators more responsibility which is cancelled when managers and engineers decided that they "just didn't want operators that qualified." The authors argue that, as this new "mandarin" class radically transforms the social order, it helps to reform some of the traditional scourges of the business world, but also poses a new threat to equality in America. To reverse this trend, they propose a post-professional society that de-emphasizes skill hierarchies and substantially democratizes knowledge. A bold and incisive new work of social criticism, this book provides a fascinating look at the modern professional and provokes Americans to think in a new way about democracy in the age of experts.
Author : Daniel F. Chambliss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615050X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Beyond Caring written by Daniel F. Chambliss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-05-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revelation of the forces shaping moral decisions in our hospitals. Based on more than ten years' field research, Beyond Caring is filled with eyewitness accounts and personal stories demonstrating how nurses turn the awesome into the routine. It shows how patients, many weak and helpless, too often become objects of the bureaucratic machinery of the health care system and how ethics decisions, once the dilemmas of troubled individuals, become the setting for political turf battles between occupational interest groups. The result is a compelling combination of realism and a powerful theoretical argument about moral life in large organizations.
Author : Paige Hall Smith
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813553164
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Beyond Health, Beyond Choice written by Paige Hall Smith and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current public health promotion of breastfeeding relies heavily on health messaging and individual behavior change. Women are told that “breast is best” but too little serious attention is given to addressing the many social, economic, and political factors that combine to limit women’s real choice to breastfeed beyond a few days or weeks. The result: women’s, infants’, and public health interests are undermined. Beyond Health, Beyond Choice examines how feminist perspectives can inform public health support for breastfeeding. Written by authors from diverse disciplines, perspectives, and countries, this collection of essays is arranged thematically and considers breastfeeding in relation to public health and health care; work and family; embodiment (specifically breastfeeding in public); economic and ethnic factors; guilt; violence; and commercialization. By examining women’s experiences and bringing feminist insights to bear on a public issue, the editors attempt to reframe the discussion to better inform public health approaches and political action. Doing so can help us recognize the value of breastfeeding for the public’s health and the important productive and reproductive contributions women make to the world.
Author : Howard Waitzkin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461645565
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Second Sickness written by Howard Waitzkin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-02-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 decisionmaking. 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.
Author : Inge Seiffge-Krenke
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317713982
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Adolescents' Health written by Inge Seiffge-Krenke and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to identifying the precursors of adolescents' health problems and risk taking behaviors and the developmental processes that accompany them. It presents data on lay conceptions of health and illness, physical maturity, causes of mortality and morbidity, and patterns of utilization of medical and psychosocial health care services. Developmental changes in risk perception, self-disclosure behavior, and in dealing with nudity are linked with doctor-patient communication to illustrate the typical obstacles health experts are faced with when trying to assess diagnostic information in this age group. Developmental barriers that hinder adolescents' compliance are highlighted and factors accounting for their aversion to counseling are reviewed. This book also presents findings on typical stressors occurring during adolescence and their effect on health status as well as factors mediating the effect of stress on health. Throughout, readers gain valuable insight into gender differences, physical and psychological symptoms, and help-seeking behaviors. Special attention is directed to deficits in coping behavior, social support, and network structure of distressed adolescents and the current state of research relative to coping with chronic illness in adolescence is reviewed. Implications of these findings for the development of intervention strategies or for improving the health care of chronically ill adolescents and particularly troubled adolescents are detailed. This volume will appeal to clinical and school psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, counselors or other healthcare professionals working with adolescents as well as researchers in the field of adolescent health. It also serves as a text in graduate level courses on adolescent health, psychopathology, and developmental pediatrics.
Author : Thomas Mathar
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839413028
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice written by Thomas Mathar and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalise and organise both health systems and patients' health practices. By applying a perspective from empirical science & technology studies (STS), based on qualitative research methods, the chapters of this book present a view behind the scenes and zoom into the micropolitics of prevention and health promotion. They analyse how patients are framed as being »at risk«, how preventative regimes shape medical practices, and what its practical consequences are in patients' everyday lives. This makes the insights of this book relevant for prevention and health promotion practitioners, public health policy-makers and researchers.
Author : Ashwin Kumar
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780975750513
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Lived Experience of Caring written by Ashwin Kumar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vera Kalitzkus
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042019999
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Bordering Biomedicine written by Vera Kalitzkus and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biomedicine is the dominant organizing framework of modern medicine but it is not the only lens through which health, illness and disease can be understood. This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars from around the world who seek to probe the boundaries of biomedicine. This book is the outcome of the third global conference on Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease, held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in July 2004. The papers selected for this volume take a variety of theoretical positions but share an interest in the social study of health, illness and disease. They consider how biomedicine is a cultural system and is imbued with other meanings and that a full exploration of health, illness and disease requires a variety of perspectives, including those of social scientists, humanists and practicing clinicians. This volume will be of interest to students, researchers and health care providers who wish to gain insight into the many ways through which we can understand health, illness and disease.
Author : Charles F. Longino
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351862820
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Old Age Challenge to the Biomedical Model written by Charles F. Longino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to this book is the idea that the United States is in the midst of a health care crisis, one that will be exacerbated as the population continues to age. Longino and Murphy trace the philosophical and technological development of the biomedical model and show its inadequacy to deal with the massive chronic disease demand of the present and the future. They argue that the delivery of health care will meet and survive the old age challenge only if the medical system is thoroughly democratized. A more inclusive system must be devised that encourages a more reasonable allocation of resources, gives more attention to prevention, adopts a wider range of non-medical interventions, and invites citizens to become more involved in their own health care and the planning of services.
Author : Judith A HOUCK
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038819
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Hot and Bothered written by Judith A HOUCK and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did menopause change from being a natural (and often welcome) end to a woman's childbearing years to a deficiency disease in need of medical and pharmacological intervention? By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developments and by changing roles for women and the changing definition of womanhood.
Author : Elaine Draper
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610441621
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Company Doctor written by Elaine Draper and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To limit the skyrocketing costs of their employees' health insurance, companies such as Dow, Chevron, and IBM, as well as many large HMOs, have increasingly hired physicians to supervise the medical care they provide. As Elaine Draper argues in The Company Doctor, company doctors are bound by two conflicting ideals: serving the medical needs of their patients while protecting the company's bottom line. Draper analyzes the advent of the corporate physician both as an independent phenomenon, and as an index of contemporary culture, reaching startling conclusions about the intersection of corporate culture with professional autonomy. Drawing on over 100 interviews with company physicians, scientists, and government and labor officials, as well as historical, legal, and statistical sources and medical trade association data, Draper presents an illuminating overview of the social context and meaning of professional work in corporations. Draper finds that while medical journals, speeches, and ethical codes proclaim the independent professional judgment of corporate physicians, the company doctors she interviewed often expressed anguish over the tightrope they must walk between their patients' health and the corporate oversight they face at every turn. Draper dissects the complex position occupied by company doctors to explore broad themes of doctor-patient trust, employee loyalty, privacy issues, and the future direction of medicine. She addresses such controversial topics as drug screening and the difficult position of company doctors when employees sue companies for health hazards in the workplace. Company doctors are but one example of professionals who have at times ceded their autonomy to corporate management. Physicians provide the prototypical professional case for exploring this phenomenon, due to their traditional independence, extensive training, and high levels of prestige. But Draper expands the scope of the book—tracing parallel developments in the law, science, and technology—to draw insightful conclusions about changing conditions in the professional workplace, as corporate cultures everywhere adapt to the new realities of the global economy. The Company Doctor provides a compelling examination of the corporatization of American medicine with far-reaching implications for professionals in many other fields.
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1956 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 1956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret M. Lock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521655682
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies written by Margaret M. Lock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating collection of essays, a product of face-to-face dialogues among anthropologists, sociologists, and philosopher-historians, focuses on the newly created biomedical technologies and their application in practice. Drawing on ethnographic and historical case studies, the authors show how biomedical technologies are produced through the agencies of tools and techniques, scientists and doctors, funding bodies, patients, clients, and the public. Despite shared concerns, the contributions reveal that the authors have achieved no consensus about the objectives of their research. Deep epistemological divides clearly remain, making for provocative reading.
