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The Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition

Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine

Jonathan Oberlander editor Ronald P Strauss editor Nancy M P King editor Larry R Churchill editor Sue E Estroff editor Barry F Saunders editor Mara Buchbinder editor Rebecca L Walker editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Duke University Press

Published:31st May '19

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The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today'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.

Volume 1, Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine, contains essays, case studies, narratives, fiction, and poems that focus on the experiences of illness and of clinician-patient relationships. Among other topics the contributors examine the roles and training of professionals alongside the broader cultures of biomedicine; health care; experiences and decisions regarding death, dying, and struggling to live; and particular manifestations of injustice in the broader health system. The Reader is essential reading for all medical students, physicians, and health care providers.

"A must-read for health care professionals, these readings are provocative and invite critical social and moral analysis among health care professionals. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- B. A. D'Anna * Choice *

ISBN: 9781478001737

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 635g

376 pages

Third Edition, New edition