Table of Contents

Introduction - Gary L Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick and Susan C Scrimshaw
PART ONE: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FRAMEWORKS OF ANALYSIS
The History of the Changing Concepts of Health and Illness - Bryan S Turner
Outline of a General Model of Illness Categories
Social Theorizing about Health and Illness - David Armstrong
Classification and Process in Sociomedical Understanding - Robert A Rubinstein, Susan C Scrimshaw and Suzanne E Morrisey
Towards a Multilevel View of Sociomedical Methodology
The Social Construction of Medicine and the Body - Deborah Lupton
A Taxonomy of Research Concerned with Place and Health - Ralph Catalano and Kate E Pickett
The Globalization of Health and Disease - Emily C Zielinski Guti[ac]errez and Carl Kendall
The Health Transition and Global Change
The Social Causation of Health and Illness - Johannes Siegrist
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health - Stephanie A Robert and James S House
Integrating Individual-, Community-, and Societal-Level Theory and Research
Gender and Health - Sandra D Lane and Donald A Cibula
Critical Perspectives on Health and Aging - Carroll L Estes and Karen W Linkins
The Social Context of the New Genetics - Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Mary Boulton
PART TWO: THE EXPERIENCE OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Cultural Variation in the Experience of Health and Illness - Ann McElroy and Mary Ann Jezewski
Ethnography and Network Analysis - Robert T Trotter II
The Study of Social Context in Cultures and Societies
Personal Experience of Illness - Arthur Kleinman and Don Seeman
Clinical Narratives and the Study of Contemporary Doctor-Patient Relationships - Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Byron J Good
Accounting for Disease and Distress - Margaret Lock
Morals of the Normal and Abnormal
Experiencing Chronic Illness - Kathy Charmaz
The Global Emergence of Disability - Gary L Albrecht and Lois M Verbrugge
Reproduction and Assisted Reproductive Technologies - Hel[ac]ena Ragon[ac]e and Sharla K Willis
Health-Care Utilization and Barriers to Health Care - Judith D Kasper
Concepts and Measurement of Health Status and Health-Related Quality of Life - Colleen A McHorney
Health Behavior - Thomas R Prohaska, Karen E Peters and Jan S Warren
From Research to Community Practice
PART THREE: HEALTH-CARE SYSTEMS AND PRACTICES
The Medical Profession - David Coburn and Evan Willis
Knowledge, Power, and Autonomy
The Sociological Character of Health-Care Markets - Donald W Light
Medical Uncertainty Revisited - Ren[ac]ee C Fox
Alternative Health Practices and Systems - Sarah Cant and Ursula Sharma
Comparative Health Sytems - Linda M Whiteford and Lois LaCivita Nixon
Emerging Convergences and Globalization
The Patient′s Perspective Regarding Appropriate Health Care - Angela Coulter and Ray Fitzpatrick
Consumer and Community Participation - Deena White
A Reassessment of Process, Impact and Value
An Expanded Conceptual Framework of Equity - Lu Ann Aday
Implications for Assessing Health Policy
Resources and Rationing - Stephen Harrison and Michael Moran
Managing Supply and Demand in Health Care
Reconfiguring Health Policy - Steven Lewis, Marcel Saulnier and Marc Renaud
Simple Truths, Complex Solutions

About the Author

Gary L. Albrecht is a Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Extraordinary Guest Professor of Social Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium and Professor Emeritus of Public Health and of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. After receiving his Ph.D. from Emory University, he has served on the faculties of Emory University in Sociology and Psychiatry, Northwestern University in Sociology, Rehabilitation Medicine and the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in the School of Public Health and in the Department of Disability and Human Development. Since retiring from the UIC in 2005, he divides his time between Europe and the United States. He works in Boulder, Colorado and Brussels, Belgium. He was recently a Scholar in Residence at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH) in Paris, a visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, the University of Oxford and a Fellow in Residence at the Royal Flemish Academy of Science and Arts, Brussels Susan C. Scrimshaw, Ph.D., is currently the President of The Sage Colleges in Troy, NY. Prior to her appointment as President of The Sage Colleges, Dr. Scrimshaw was President of Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. She was dean of the School of Public Health, and professor of community health sciences and of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) from 1994 through June 2006. Prior to becoming dean at UIC in 1994, she was associate dean of public health and professor of public health and anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Scrimshaw is a graduate of Barnard College and obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. Her research includes community participatory research methods, addressing health disparities, improving pregnancy outcomes, violence prevention, health literacy, and culturally appropriate delivery of health care. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies, where she has been elected a member of the governing council and serves on The Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), a joint unit of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. She is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Anthropological Association, and the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. While in Chicago, Dr. Scrimshaw was an appointed member of the Chicago Board of Health and Illinois State Board of Health. She chaired the IOM Committee on Communication for Behavior Change in the 21st Century: Improving the Health of Diverse Populations, and served as a member of the IOM Committee on Health Literacy. She is a past president of the board of directors of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation for Science, former chair of the Association of Schools of Public Health, and past president of the Society for Medical Anthropology. Her honors and awards include the Margaret Mead Award, a Hero of Public Health gold medal awarded by President Vicente Fox of Mexico, the UIC Mentor of the Year Award in 2002, and the Chicago Community Clinic Visionary Award in 2005. Dr. Scrimshaw was raised in Guatemala until age 16. She is fluent in Spanish, and also speaks French and Portuguese.

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