Medicine's Moving Pictures (Bog)

Bogen undersøger, hvordan den danske lægestand har forsøgt at skabe en autoritativ fortælling om 'de virkelige læger' gennem tiden. Type: Hardcover

Summary: "Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries." Titel: The social transformation of American medicine : the rise of a sovereign profession & the making a a vast industry Udgave: Med en ny epilog af forfatteren Genre: Sociologi/Medicin/Historie Sammendrag: Bogen betragtes som den definitive historie om det amerikanske sundhedsvæsen og undersøger, hvordan rollerne for læger, hospitaler, sundhedsplaner og regeringsprogrammer har udviklet sig over de sidste to og et halvt århundreder. Den sporer tilbagegangen af professionel suverænitet inden for medicin, de politiske kampe over sundhedspleje og fremkomsten af et virksomheds-system. Type: Paperback

Victor Montori: Why We Revolt - A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care Victor Montori er en peruviansk-amerikansk læge og forsker, der i sin bog "Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care" argumenterer for en radikal ændring i sundhedsvæsenet. Han mener, at det nuværende system ofte er mere fokuseret på profit og effektivitet end på patienternes velbefindende og behov. Winner of the 2018 PenCraft Award for Literary Excellence, Why We Revolt peels back the curtain to expose the corruption and negligence present in the modern American healthcare system—and how, with focused collaboration, we can revolutionize the way our country approaches patient care. Told through a series of essays and short stories, Dr. Victor M. Montori’s Why We Revolt uncovers how, over the past few decades, the American healthcare system has become increasingly exploited and industrialize

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The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that disease is socially produced and distributed. Becoming sick and unhealthy is not the result of individual misfortune or an accident of nature. It is a consequence of the social, political and economic organization of society. In developing this thesis, the author systematically introduces students to the major sociological explanations of the role and functions of medical explanations of disease. The book situates the student securely in the literature and provides a guide to the strengths and weaknesses of the major sociological approaches. It draws out the essential features of the major sociological contributions and elucidates how an appreciation of the dynamics of class, gender, ethnicity and the sociology of knowledge challenges medical power. Forlag: SAGE Udgivelsesår: 2002 Sider: 212 Sprog: Engelsk

The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering Summary: This fascinating investigation into the production of American cultural memory focuses on two of the most traumatic and contested events in recent U.S. history: the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. Each, Marita Sturken argues, disrupts our conventional understanding of nationhood, identity, and American culture. She brilliantly compares the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt as key sites where cultural memory is produced and debated. While debunking the characterization of the United States as a culture of amnesia, Sturken shows that remembering is itself a form of forgetting, and memory an inventive social practice Forfatter: Marita Sturken (1957-) Forlag: University of California Press Udgivelsesår: 1997 Sider: 368 Sprog: Engelsk

Thoroughly revised and fully updated, the second edition of Sarah Nettleton’s book will prove invaluable to anyone looking for a clear and accessible introduction to contemporary debates within the sociology of health and illness. The book builds on the first edition’s success, integrating the core tenets of traditional medical sociology with some fresh insights from the current literature. New material is found throughout, including discussions of food and eating, e-health, the MMR debate, embryo stem cell research, recent approaches to health inequalities, and the health implications of the information age. Carefully annotated suggested further readings have been added to each chapter, to help extend students’ learning and thinking. Type: Paperback The second edition of this excellent textbook has been thoroughly revised and updated. It remains a clear and comprehensive text which offe

Bogen er en lærebog i medicinsk sociologi. Den behandler en række temaer, som har afgørende betydning for befolkningens helbred og for sundhedspolitikken, fx sygdomsbegreber, social ulighed, sociale relationer, livsstil, køn, stress, arbejdsmarked, lokalsamfund og forebyggelse. I bogen præsenteres væsentlige begreber og teorier, aktuelle forskningsresultater fremlægges, og implikationer af denne viden på makroplan (fx sundhedspolitik, forebyggelse, sundhedsvæsen) og mikroplan (fx behandling, rehabilitering) diskuteres. Type: Paperback