Part I The Social Production of Disease and Meanings of Illness
The Social Nature of Disease
Reading 1 Medical Measures and the Decline of Mortality - John B. McKinlay and Sonja M. McKinlay
Reading 2 Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities: Theory, Evidence, and Practice - Jo C. Phelan, Bruce G. Link, and Parisa Tehranifar
Who Gets Sick? The Unequal Social Distribution of Disease
Reading 3 Social Class, Susceptibility, and Sickness - S. Leonard Syme and Lisa F. Berkman
Reading 4 Racism and Health: Pathways and Scientific Evidence - David R. Williams and Selina A. Mohammed
Reading 5 Sex, Gender, and Vulnerability - Rachel C. Snow
Reading 6 Health Inequalities in Global Context - Jason Beckfield, Sigrun Olafsdottir, and Elyas Bakhtiari
Reading 7 A Case for Refocusing Upstream: The Political Economy of Illness - John B. McKinlay
Our Sickening Social and Physical Environments
Reading 8 Social Relationships and Health - James S. House, Karl R. Landis, and Debra Umberson
Reading 9 Dying Alone: The Social Production of Urban Isolation - Eric Klinenberg
The Social and Cultural Meanings of Illness
Reading 10 Morality and Health: News Media Constructions of Overweight and Eating Disorders - Abigail C. Saguy and Kjerstin Gruys
Reading 11 Like a Fish out of Water: Managing Chronic Pain in the Urban Safety Net - Sara Rubin, Nancy Burke, Meredith Van Natta, Irene Yen, and Janet K. Shim
Reading 12 Whose Deaths Matter?: Mortality, Advocacy, and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media - Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Daniel P. Carpenter, and Marie Hojnacki
The Experience of Illness
Reading 13 Electronic Support Groups, Patient-Consumers, and Medicalization: The Case of Contested Illness - Kristin K. Barker
Reading 14 The Meaning of Medications: Another Look at Compliance - Peter Conrad
PART II THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL CARE
The Rise and Fall of the Dominance of Medicine
Reading 15 Professionalization, Monopoly, and the Structure of Medical Practice - Peter Conrad and Joseph W. Schneider
Reading 16 Notes on the Decline of Midwives and the Rise of Medical Obstetricians - Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz
Reading 17 The End of the Golden Age of Doctoring - John B. McKinlay and Lisa D. Marceau
Other Providers In and Out of Medicine
Reading 18 A Caring Dilemma: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective - Susan Reverby
Reading 19 SuperNurse? Troubling the Hero Discourse in COVID Times - Rochelle Einboden
Reading 20 Becoming a Complementary Health Practitioner: The Construction of Alternative Medical Knowledge - Maayan Roichman
Pharmaceuticalization
Reading 21 From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Medicalisation - Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter
Reading 22 Prescriptions and Proscriptions: Moralising Sleep Medicines - Jonathan Gabe, Catherine M. Coveney, and Simon J. Williams
Reading 23 Vaccine Refusal and Pharmaceutical Acquiescence: Parental Control and Ambivalence in Managing Children's Health - Jennifer A. Reich
Financing Medical Care
Reading 24 Paying for Health Care - Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach
Reading 25 The Origins of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Jill Quadagno
Medicine in Practice
Reading 26 The Struggle Between the Voice of Medicine and the Voice of the Lifeworld - Elliot G. Mishler
Reading 27 Cultural Brokerage: Creating Linkages Between Voices of Lifeworld and Medicine in Cross-Cultural Clinical Settings - Ming-Cheng Miriam Lo
Reading 28 Latina Physicians as "Essential" Workers - Glenda M. Flores
Reading 29 "Like Finding a Unicorn": Healthcare Preferences Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People in the United States - Alexander J. Martos, Patrick A. Wilson, Allegra R. Gordon, Marguerita Lightfoot, and Ilan H. Meyer
Reading 30 Social Death as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - Stefan Timmermans
Reading 31 Technologies and Health Inequities - Stefan Timmermans and Rebecca Kaufman
Reading 32 Being-in-Dialysis: The Experience of the Machine-Body for Home Dialysis Users - Rhonda Shaw
Reading 33 "It Just Becomes Much More Complicated": Genetic Counselors' Views on Genetics and Prenatal Testing - Susan Markens
Part III Contemporary Critical Debates
The Relevance of Risk
Reading 34 Risk as Moral Danger: The Social and Political Functions of Risk Discourse in Public Health - Deborah Lupton
Reading 35 Lay Pharmacovigilance and the Dramatization of Risk: Fluoroquinolone Harm on YouTube - Kristin Kay Barker
Reading 36 Risk society online: Zika virus, social media and distrust in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Andrea Laurent-Simpson and Celia C. Lo
Reading 37 The Shifting Engines of Medicalization - Peter Conrad
Reading 38 The Best Laid Plans?: Women's Choices, Expectations and Experiences in Childbirth - Claudia Malacrida and Tiffany Boulton
Reading 39 C-Section Epidemic - Theresa Morris
Part IV Expanding Health and Health Care
Illness, Medicine, and the Internet
Reading 40 Illness and the Internet: From Private to Public Experience - Peter Conrad, Julia Bandini, and Alexandria Vasquez
Reading 41 Collective Self-experimentation in Patient-led Research: How Online Health Communities Foster Innovation - Joanna Kempner and John Bailey
Reading 42 "It's Like Having a Physician in Your Pocket!": A Critical Analysis of Self-Diagnosis Smartphone Apps - Deborah Lupton and Annemarie Jutel
Prevention, Movements, and Social Change
Reading 43 COVID-19 as Eco-Pandemic Injustice: Opportunities for Collective and Antiracist Approaches to Environmental Health - Martha Powers, Phil Brown, Grace Poudrier, Jennifer Liss Ohayon, Alissa Cordner, Cole Alder, and Marina Goreau Atlas
Reading 44 Politicizing Health Care - John McKnight