Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-8476-9886-8 • Hardback • February 2000 • $171.00 • (£133.00)
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Howard Waitzkin is Professor and Director, Division of Community
Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico.
Chapter 1 List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 2 Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 3 Preface to the First Edition and Acknowledgments
Part 4 I: Medicine, Social Structure, and Social Pathology
Chapter 5 1. Health Care, Social Contradictions, and the Dilemmas of Reform
Chapter 6 2. Social Structures of Medical Oppression
Chapter 7 3. The Social Origins of Illness: A Neglected History
Part 8 II: Problems in Contemporary Health Care
Chapter 9 4. Technology, Health Costs, and the Structure of Private Profit
Chapter 10 5. Social Medicine and the Community
Chapter 11 6. The Micropolitics of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Part 12 III: Policy, Practice, and Social Change
Chapter 13 7. Medicine and Social Change: Lessons from Chile and Cuba
Chapter 14 8. Conclusion: Health Praxis, Reform, and Political Struggle
Chapter 15 Notes
Chapter 16 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 17 Index
Chapter 18 About the Author
Superb. . . . Stands out like a beacon amidst confusion. . . . The richness of detail and evidence adduced to support the arguments are exceptional.
— Social Science & Medicine
Makes good reading for anyone interested in health policy. . . . Waitzkin's warnings about the limits of health reform are thought-provoking.
— The New Physician
This is not a political book but one of political action. The healing profession has to face not only sickness in the individual but sickness in society; all too often, the second sickness is the root of the first. This book will spark controversy. . . .
— The New England Journal Of Medicine
— No other book takes a broader look at the sources of illness in a complex society
— Cogently links vignettes of doctor-patient interaction to the broadest
social and economic forces that affect medical decisionmaking
— Updated to reflect the latestdevelopments in managed care
— Extensive annotated bibliography