The Sociology of Health and Illness 10/e

Peter Conrad is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Brandeis University. His work focuses on the sociology of health and illness, deviance, medicalization, new genetics, and the sociology of ADHD. He has published over 100 articles and a dozen books, including The Medicalization of Society (2007), and most recently, coedited Global Perspectives on ADHD (2018). He received the Lee Founder's Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (for lifetime contributions) and the Leo G. Reeder Award for "outstanding contributions to medical Sociology" from the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. Valerie Leiter is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Simmons College. She received the Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies. Much of her work focuses on children and youth with disabilities, including her book, Their Time has Come: Youth with Disabilities on the Cusp of Adulthood (Rutgers University Press). She has two current projects, one focused on individuals' experiences with autoimmune conditions, and the other on the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of women's health medical devices. Her teaching addresses health and illness, disability, children and youth, and sociological methods.

PART I. THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF DISEASE AND THE MEANINGS OF ILLNESS Chapter 1. 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 - Jo C. Phelan, Bruce G. Link and Parisa Tehranifar Chapter 2. 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. Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine - Paul E. Farmer et al. Reading 7. A Case of Refocusing Upstream: The Political Economy of Illness - John B. McKnight Chapter 3. Our Sickening Social and Physical Environments Reading 8. Social Relationships and Health - James S. House, Karl R. Landis and Debra Umberson Reading 9. The Health Politics of Asthma - Phil Brown et al. Reading 10. Dying Alone: The Social Production of Urban Isolation - Eric Klinenberg Chapter 4. The Social and Cultural Meanings of Illness Reading 11. Morality and Health: News Media Constructions of Overweight and Eating Disorders - Abigail C. Saguy and Kjerstin Gruys Reading 12. Illness Meaning of AIDS Among Women with HIV: Merging Immunology and Life Experience - Alison Scott Reading 13. Whose Deaths Matter?: Mortality, Advocacy, and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media - Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Dan Carpenter and Marie E. Hojnacki Chapter 5. The Experience of Illness Reading 14. Electronic Support Groups, Patient-Consumers, and Medicalization: The Case of Contested Illness - Kristin K. Barker Reading 15. The Meaning of Medications: Another Look at Compliance - Peter Conrad Reading 16. Being-in-Dialysis: The Experience of the Machine-Body for Home Dialysis Users - Rhonda Shaw PART II. THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL CARE Chapter 6. The Rise and Fall of the Dominance of Medicine Reading 17. Professionalization, Monopoly, and the Structure of Medical Practice - Peter Conrad and Joseph W. Schneider Reading 18. Notes on the Decline of Midwives and the Rise of Medical Obstetricians - Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz Reading 19. The End of the Golden Age of Doctoring - John B. McKinlay and Lisa D. Marceau Reading 20. Countervailing Power: The Changing Character of the Medical Profession in the United States - Donald W. Light Chapter 7. Other Providers In and Out of Medicine Reading 21. A Caring Dilemma: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective - Susan Reverby Reading 22. From Quackery to "Complementary" Medicine: The American Medical Profession Confronts Alternative Therapies - Terri A. Winnick Chapter 8. Pharmaceuticalization Reading 23. From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Medicalization - Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter 24. Prescriptions and Proscriptions: Moralizing Sleep Medications - Jonathan Gabe, Catherine M. Coveney and Simon J. Williams Chapter 9. Financing Medical Care Reading 25. Paying for Health Care - Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach Reading 26. The Origins of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Jill Quadagno Reading 27. The Debate Over Health Care Rationing: Deja Vu All Over Again - Alan B. Cohen Chapter 10. Medicine in Practice Reading 28. The Struggle Between the Voice of Medicine and the Voice of the Lifeworld - Elliot G. Mishler Reading 29. Cultural Brokerage: Creating Linkages Between Voices of Lifeworld and Medicine in Cross-Cultural Clinical Settings - Ming-Cheng Miriam Lo Reading 30. Social Death as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - Stefan Timmermans Reading 31. "I want you to save my kid!": Illness management strategies, access, and inequality at an elite university research hospital - Amanda M. Gengler Chapter 11. Dilemmas of Medical Technology Reading 32. Medical Sociology and Technology: Critical Engagements - Monica J. Casper and Daniel R. Morrison Reading 33. "It just becomes much more complicated": Genetic Counselors' Views on Genetics and Prenatal Testing - Susan Markens PART III. CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL DEBATES Chapter 12. The Relevance of Risk Reading 34. Risk as Moral Danger: The Social and Political Functions of Risk - Deborah Lupton Reading 35. The Pursuit of Preventive Care for Chronic Illness: Turning Healthy People into Chronic Patients - Meta J. Kreiner and Linda M. Hunt Chapter 13. The Medicalization of American Society Reading 36. Medicine as an Institution of Social Control - Irving Kenneth Zola 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 Chapter 14. 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. It's Like Having a Physician in Your Pocket! A Critical Analysis of Self-Diagnosis Smartphone Apps - Deborah Lupton and Annemarie Jutel Chapter 15. Prevention, Movements, and Social Change Reading 42. Politicizing Health Care - John McKnight Reading 43. Embodied Health Movements: Uncharted Territory in Social Movement Research - Phil Brown et al. Chapter 16. Global Issues Reading 44. Health Inequalities in Global Context - Jason Beckfield, Sigrun Olafsdottir and Elyas Bakhtiari Reading 45. The Impending Globalization of ADHD: Notes on the Expansion and Growth of a Medicalized Disorder - Peter Conrad and Meredith R. Bergey Reading 46. International Medical Migration: The Global Movements of Doctors and Nurses - Hannah Bradby