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How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives. Over
the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted
suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now
legally available to one in five Americans. This growing social and
political movement heralds the possibility of a new era of choice
in dying. Yet very little is publicly known about how medical
aid-in-dying laws affect ordinary citizens once they are put into
practice. Sociological studies of new health policies have
repeatedly demonstrated that the realities often fall short of
advocacy visions, raising questions about how much choice and
control aid-in-dying actually affords. Scripting Death chronicles
two years of ethnographic research documenting the implementation
of Vermont's 2013 Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act.
Author Mara Buchbinder weaves together stories collected from
patients, caregivers, health care providers, activists, and
legislators to illustrate how they navigate aid-in-dying as a new
medical frontier in the aftermath of legalization. Scripting Death
explains how medical aid-in-dying works, what motivates people to
pursue it, and ultimately, why upholding the "right to die" is very
different from ensuring access to this life-ending procedure. This
unprecedented, in-depth account uses the case of assisted death as
an entry point into ongoing cultural conversations about the
changing landscape of death and dying in the United States.
Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain
of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore,
essentially unknowable. And, yet, despite the obvious limits to
comprehending another's internal state, language is all that we
have to translate pain from the solitary and unknowable to a
phenomenon richly described in literature, medicine, and everyday
life. Without denying the private dimensions of pain, All in Your
Head offers an entirely fresh perspective that considers how pain
may be configured, managed, explained, and even experienced in
deeply relational ways. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a
pediatric pain clinic in California, Mara Buchbinder explores how
clinicians, adolescent patients, and their families make sense of
puzzling symptoms and work to alleviate pain. Through careful
attention to the language of pain - including narratives,
conversations, models, and metaphors - and detailed analysis of how
young pain sufferers make meaning through interactions with others,
her book reveals that however private pain may be, making sense of
it is profoundly social.
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 with writings by scholars in medicine, the social
sciences, and the humanities.
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The Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition - Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine (Hardcover, Third Edition, New edition)
Jonathan Oberlander, Mara Buchbinder, Larry R. Churchill, Sue E. Estroff, Nancy M.P. King, …
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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.
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.
Amid ongoing debate about health care reform, the need for
informedanalyses of health policy is greater than ever. The twelve
original essays inthis volume show that common public debates
routinely bypass complexethical, sociocultural, historical, and
political questions about how we shouldaddress ideals of justice
and equality in health care. Integrating perspectivesfrom the
humanities, social sciences, medicine, and public health, the
contributorsilluminate the relationships between justice and health
inequalitiesto complicate and enrich debates often dominated by
simplistic narratives. Understanding Health Inequalities and
Justice grounds key conceptualdiscussions in timely case studies
and policy analyses that explore threeoverarching questions: first,
how do scholars approach relations betweenhealth inequalities and
ideals of justice; second, when do justice considerationsinform
solutions to health inequalities, and how do specific
healthinequalities affect perceptions of injustice; and third, how
can diverse scholarlyapproaches contribute to better health policy?
From addressing patientagency in an inequitable health care
environment to examining how scholarsof social justice and health
care amass evidence, this volume combines theskills and
sensibilities of diverse scholars to promote a richer
understandingof health and justice and the successful paths to
their realization. The contributors are Judith C. Barker, Paula
Braveman, Paul Brodwin,Jami Suki Chang, Debra DeBruin, Leslie A.
Dubbin, Sarah Horton, Carla C.Keirns, J. Paul Kelleher, Nicholas B.
King, Eva Feder Kittay, Joan Liaschenko,Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Mary
Faith Marshall, Carolyn Mokley Rouse, JenniferPrah Ruger, and Janet
K. Shim.
Amid ongoing debate about health care reform, the need for
informedanalyses of health policy is greater than ever. The twelve
original essays inthis volume show that common public debates
routinely bypass complexethical, sociocultural, historical, and
political questions about how we shouldaddress ideals of justice
and equality in health care. Integrating perspectivesfrom the
humanities, social sciences, medicine, and public health, the
contributorsilluminate the relationships between justice and health
inequalitiesto complicate and enrich debates often dominated by
simplistic narratives. Understanding Health Inequalities and
Justice grounds key conceptualdiscussions in timely case studies
and policy analyses that explore threeoverarching questions: first,
how do scholars approach relations betweenhealth inequalities and
ideals of justice; second, when do justice considerationsinform
solutions to health inequalities, and how do specific
healthinequalities affect perceptions of injustice; and third, how
can diverse scholarlyapproaches contribute to better health policy?
From addressing patientagency in an inequitable health care
environment to examining how scholarsof social justice and health
care amass evidence, this volume combines theskills and
sensibilities of diverse scholars to promote a richer
understandingof health and justice and the successful paths to
their realization. The contributors are Judith C. Barker, Paula
Braveman, Paul Brodwin,Jami Suki Chang, Debra DeBruin, Leslie A.
Dubbin, Sarah Horton, Carla C.Keirns, J. Paul Kelleher, Nicholas B.
King, Eva Feder Kittay, Joan Liaschenko,Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Mary
Faith Marshall, Carolyn Mokley Rouse, JenniferPrah Ruger, and Janet
K. Shim.
Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain
of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore,
essentially unknowable. And, yet, despite the obvious limits to
comprehending another's internal state, language is all that we
have to translate pain from the solitary and unknowable to a
phenomenon richly described in literature, medicine, and everyday
life. Without denying the private dimensions of pain, All in Your
Head offers an entirely fresh perspective that considers how pain
may be configured, managed, explained, and even experienced in
deeply relational ways. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a
pediatric pain clinic in California, Mara Buchbinder explores how
clinicians, adolescent patients, and their families make sense of
puzzling symptoms and work to alleviate pain. Through careful
attention to the language of pain including narratives,
conversations, models, and metaphors and detailed analysis of how
young pain sufferers make meaning through interactions with others,
her book reveals that however private pain may be, making sense of
it is profoundly social.
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The Social Medicine Reader, Volume II, Third Edition - Differences and Inequalities (Hardcover, Third Edition, New edition)
Jonathan Oberlander, Mara Buchbinder, Larry R. Churchill, Sue E. Estroff, Nancy M.P. King, …
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R2,556
Discovery Miles 25 560
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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 with writings by scholars in medicine, the social
sciences, and the humanities.
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