Mehr lesen
Informationen zum Autor 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.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.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. Klappentext ""Patients, Doctors, and Illness "is a rich collection of classics and good new surprises."--Kathryn Montgomery, Director of Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Zusammenfassung A collection of readings - geared for medical students and students of public health - that deal with social and cultural issues in medicine Inhaltsverzeichnis Index to Authors 291 About the Editors 293 Preface to the Second Edition ix Introduction 1 Part I: The Experience of Illness The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine / Eric J. Cassell 7 Lilacs in September / Katha Pollitt 21 Diabetes / James Dickey 22 The Cost of Appearances / Arthur Frank 26 Betting Your Life / Alice Stewart Trillin 32 The Want of Control: Ideas and Ideals in the Management of Diabetes / Chris Feudtner 41 Spence + Lila / Bobbie Ann Mason 60 Silver Water / Amy Bloom 71 The Mother-in-Law / Doris Betts 80 Part II: The Culture of Medicine and the Physician-Patient Relationship Basic Clinical Skills: The First Encounters / Melvin Konner 89 The Learning Curve / Atul Gawande 102 Case Study: The “Student Doctor and a Wary Patient / Marc D. Basson, Gerald Dworkin, and Eric J. Cassell 121 A Students’ View of a Medical Teaching Exercise / Abenaa Brewster 127 Primum non tacere: An Ethics of Speaking Up / James Dwyer 130 Perspective Shift / Daniel Shapiro 143 Facing Our Mistakes / David Hilfiker 145 God at the Bedside / Jerome Groopman 154 Part III: Health Care Ethics and the Clinician’s Role Glossary of Basic Ethical Concepts in Health Care and Research / Nancy M. P. King 161 Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions / Larry R. Churchill, Nancy M. P. King, and David Schenck 169 Historical and Contemporary Codes of Ethics: The Hippocratic Oath, Maimonides’ Prayer, the Declaration of Geneva, and the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics>Case Study: Please Don't Tell! / Leonard Fleck and Marcia Angell 191 Invasions / Perri Klass 196 The Use of Force / William Carlos Williams 201 The Lie / Lawrence D. Grouse 205 Informed Consent, Cancer, and Truth in Prognosis / George J. Annas 208 Offering Truth: One Ethical Approach to the Uninformed Cancer Patient / Benjamin Freedman 216 What the Doctor Said / Raymond Carver 228 Part IV The End of Life A Man in His Life / Yehuda Amichai 230 End-of-Life Ethics: Some Common Definitions / Larry R. Ch...
