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

Ronald P. Strauss

Published by Duke University Press 2005

The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition

Volume 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine

Ronald P. Strauss
Edited by: Jonathan Oberlander , Larry R. Churchill , Sue E. Estroff , Gail E. Henderson and Nancy M. P. King

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387343

Overview
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About this book

A collection of readings--for medical students and students of public health-- that deal with social and cultural issues in medicine.

Author / Editor information

Jonathan Oberlander is an associate professor of social medicine and an adjunct associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Larry R. Churchill is Professor of and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Self-Interest and Universal Health Care: Why Well-Insured Americans Should Support Coverage for Everyone and Rationing Health Care in America: Perceptions and Principles of Justice.

Sue E. Estroff is Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community.

Gail E. Henderson, Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of The Chinese Hospital: A Socialist Work Unit.

Nancy M. P. King, Associate Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of Making Sense of Advance Directives.

Ronald P. Strauss is Professor of Dental Ecology and Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is author of numerous articles on social and ethical issues in the care of chronic illness.

Reviews

“These essays explore medicine and society, health and politics, care and economics. Along the way, they raise urgent questions about the human condition itself. Bracing, thoughtful, elegant, witty, iconoclastic—The Social Medicine Reader is a terrific book, perhaps the best collection of teaching essays on the market.”—James A. Morone, author of Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History and co-editor of Healthy, Wealthy and Fair: Health Care for the Good Society

"[E]xcellent. . . . The Social Medicine Reader fulfills its purposes admirably. The selected readings will stimulate critical analysis of the experiences of modern medicine from both professional and patient perspectives."

-- Samuel W. Bloom JAMA

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface to the Second Edition Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I The Uninsured, Health Care Costs, and Public Programs
The U.S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowhere? Jonathan Oberlander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health Care Uwe E. Reinhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
From Bismarck to Medicare—A Brief History of Medical Care Payment in America Donald L. Madison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
The Sad History of Health Care Cost Containment as Told in One Chart Drew E. Altman and Larry Levitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
The Unsurprising Surprise of Renewed Health Care Cost Inflation Henry J. Aaron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
The Not-So-Sad History of Medicare Cost Containment as Told in One Chart Thomas Bodenheimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Medicaid and Medicare: The Unanticipated Politics of Public Insurance Programs Lawrence D. Brown and Michael S. Sparer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
PART II Managed Care, Markets, and Rationing
Bedside Manna Deborah Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Must Good HMOs Go Bad? The Commercialization of Prepaid Group Health Care Robert Kuttner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Defending My Life Geov Parrish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Business vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards for Managed Care Wendy K. Mariner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation George J. Annas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Canada Jafna L. Cox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Rationing in Practice: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization Sharon Redmayne and Rudolf Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
PART III International Perspectives and Emerging Issues
Reforming the Health Care System: The Universal Dilemma Uwe E. Reinhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Health Care in Four Nations Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Robert H. Brook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
What’s Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States? Victor R. Fuchs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Luxury Primary Care— Market Innovation or Threat to Access? Troyen A. Brennan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Correspondence: Response to ‘‘Luxury Primary Care’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Limiting Health Care for the Old Daniel Callahan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Scapegoating the Aged: Intergenerational Equity and Age-Based Rationing Robert H. Binstock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index to Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
About the Editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 301

eBook

Published: August 29, 2005
ISBN: 9780822387343