The Social Medicine Reader Volume I Third Edition

<div>The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling <i>Social Medicine Reader</i> provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers patients and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness commentaries by physicians debates about complex medical cases and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine the social sciences and the humanities.<br><br>Volume 1 <i>Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine</i> contains essays case studies narratives fiction and poems that focus on the experiences of illness and of clinician-patient relationships. Among other topics the contributors examine the roles and training of professionals alongside the broader cultures of biomedicine; health care; experiences and decisions regarding death dying and struggling to live; and particular manifestations of injustice in the broader health system. The <i>Reader</i> is essential reading for all medical students physicians and health care providers.</div>