Since the appearance of Waitzkin's The Second Sickness, a landmark book of the 1980s, American medicine has been dramatically transformed. Waitzkin's earlier edition used qualitative research to take readers inside the “black box” of medical decisionmaking. This new, fully updated and expanded edition retains the earlier edition's vivid approach and adds timely analysis of how managed care and other economic and social forces influence medical practice today.

The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care

Politics & Social Sciences

Waitzkin, Howard

Sociology

Free Pr

The complaints that patients bring to their doctors often have roots in social issues that involve work, family life, gender roles and sexuality, aging, substance use, or other problems of non-medical origin. In this book, Howard Waitzkin examines interactions between patients and doctors to show how physicians' focus on physical complaints often fails to address patients' underlying concerns and also reinforces the societal problems that cause or aggravate these maladies. A progressive doctor-patient relationship, Waitzkin argues, fosters social change. Waitzkin provides an analysis of medical encounters, applying perspectives from structuralism, post-structuralism, and critical literary theory to transcripts of recorded conversations between doctors and patients. He demonstrates how doctors unintentionally maintain dominance in their dealings with patients, encourage conforming social behaviour and attitudes, and marginalize patients' concerns with social problems. Waitzkin suggests ways to restructure the manner in which patients and doctors communicate with each other. Physicians and patients, for example, should work together to demystify medical discourse, should refrain from medicalizing social problems and should be prepared to call on advocacy organizations seeking to change the social conditions that create personal distress.

The Politics of Medical Encounters: How Patients and Doctors Deal With Social Problems

Medical Books

Medicine

Yale University Press

The complaints that patients bring to their doctors often have roots in social issues that involve work, family life, gender roles and sexuality, aging, substance use; or other problems of nonmedical origin. In this book, physician/sociologist Howard Waitzkin examines interactions between patients and doctors to show how physicians’ focus on physical complaints often fails to address patients’ underlying concerns and also reinforces the societal problems that cause or aggravate these maladies. A progressive doctor-patient relationship, Waitzkin argues, fosters social change. 
Waitzkin provides a pathbreaking analysis of medical encounters, applying perspectives from structuralism, post-structuralism, and critical literary theory to transcripts of recorded conversations between doctors and patients. He demonstrates how doctors unintentionally maintain dominance in their dealings with patients, encourage conforming social behavior and attitudes, and marginalize patients’ concerns with social problems. Waitzkin urges physicians to attend to the social as well as the medical problems that emerge from patients’ narratives and suggests ways to restructure the manner in which patients and doctors communicate with each other. Physicians and patients, for example, should work together to demystify medical discourse, should refrain from medicalizing social problems through medications or reassurances that dull socially caused pain, and should be prepared to call on advocacy organizations seeking to change the social conditions that create personal distress. 
This book will influence and challenge physicians scholars, and students in the social sciences and humanities, as well as anyone concerned about the present problems and future direction of medicine.

Administration & Medicine Economics

The exploitation of illness in capitalist society (The Bobbs-Merrill studies in sociology)

Bobbs-Merrill

In this book Dr. Waitzkin offers a comprehensive analysis of the current problems of costs, coverage, and access to medical care in the United States. He takes the reader into the examination room with vivid patient-doctor encounters that portray dilemmas patients frequently face. Dr. Waitzkin describes how changes in medical care have affected the decision making of doctors, as well as communication between patients and doctors. He offers an analysis of how spiraling costs, managed care organizations, declining coverage, and new technologies have changed the decisions and the course of care chosen. Visit our website for sample chapters!

At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients...and What We Can Do About It

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

For three decades Dr. Howard Waitzkin has worked 'at the front line of medicine.' As a practitioner of internal medicine and primary care and as a sociologist, he has devoted much of his career to improving health services, especially for poor and underserved patients_migrant workers in California, immigrants living in Southwestern communities, and patients in developing countries of Latin America. In his latest book Dr. Waitzkin offers a comprehensive analysis of the current problems of costs, coverage, and access to medical care in the United States. He takes the reader into the examination room with vivid patient-doctor encounters that portray dilemmas patients frequently face. Many stories are too familiar in this era of rising costs and declining health coverage: A 31-year old diabetic man who died when his Medicaid co-payment spiraled out of reach; a 48-year old woman whose breast cancer metastasized as she waited funding for an outpatient biopsy; a 63-year old man struggling to control high blood pressure after a layoff left him without affordable coverage. The United States today is the only economically developed county in which more than a third of the population is uninsured or under-insured. This new book explains why, just as it offers strategies to improve medical encounters and the health care system as a whole. Changes in Medical care have affected the decision making of doctors, as well as communication between patients and doctors. Dr. Waitzkin describes these important changes in the medical practice. He offers an analysis of how spiraling costs, managed care organizations, declining coverage, and new technologies have changed the decisions and the course of care chosen. Most strikingly, he explains why a community's social and economic conditions have even more impact on health outcomes than the type or quality of available health services. Dr. Waitzkin describes the bold action needed if the United States is to improve the health prospects of its people. Howard Waitzkin lives in a rural area east of Albuquerque, where he is professor of community medicine, internal medicine, and sociology at the University of New Mexico. His award winning research has been featured inThe New York Times, The New England Journal of Medicine, and in national and international wire services.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Since the appearance of WaitzkinOs The Second Sickness, a landmark book of the 1980s, American medicine has been dramatically transformed. WaitzkinOs earlier edition used qualitative research to take readers inside the Oblack boxO of medical decisionmaking. This new, fully updated and expanded edition retains the earlier edition's vivid approach and adds timely analysis of how managed care and other economic and social forces influence medical practice today.

Since the appearance of Waitzkin's The Second Sickness, a landmark book of the 1980s, American medicine has been dramatically transformed. Waitzkin's earlier edition used qualitative research to take readers inside the “black box” of medical decisionmaking. This new, fully updated and expanded edition retains the earlier edition's vivid approach and adds timely analysis of how managed care and other economic and social forces influence medical practice today.

Social Medicine and the Coming Transformation

Anderson, Matt

Pérez, Alina

Social Sciences

Routledge

Social medicine, starting two centuries ago, has shown that social conditions affect health and illness more than biology does, and social change affects the outcomes of health and illness more than health services do. Understanding and exposing sickness-generating structures in society helps change them. This first introductory textbook in social medicine provides a critical introduction to this increasingly important field. The authors draw on examples worldwide to show how principles based on solidarity and mutual aid have enabled people to participate collaboratively to construct health-promoting social conditions. The book offers vital information and analysis to enhance learners' understanding about promoting health through social and individual means; the micro-politics of medical encounters; the social determination of illness; the influences of race, class, gender, and ethnicity; health and empire; and health praxis, reform, and sociomedical activism. &nbsp;The book offers compelling ways to understand and to change the social dimensions of health and health care. Students, teachers, practitioners, activists, and people who take part in policymaking will value this book, which goes beyond the usual approaches of texts in public health, medical sociology, health economics, and health policy.

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The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care

The Politics of Medical Encounters: How Patients and Doctors Deal With Social Problems

The Politics of Medical Encounters: How Patients and Doctors Deal With Social Problems

The exploitation of illness in capitalist society (The Bobbs-Merrill studies in sociology)

At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients...and What We Can Do About It

At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients...and What We Can Do About It

The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care

The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care

Social Medicine and the Coming Transformation

Social Medicine and the Coming Transformation