Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition

Jonathan Oberlander is an associate professor of social medicine and an adjunct associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Larry R. Churchill is Professor of and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Self-Interest and Universal Health Care: Why Well-Insured Americans Should Support Coverage for Everyone and Rationing Health Care in America: Perceptions and Principles of Justice.Sue E. Estroff is Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community.Gail E. Henderson, Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of The Chinese Hospital: A Socialist Work Unit.Nancy M. P. King, Associate Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of Making Sense of Advance Directives.Ronald P. Strauss is Professor of Dental Ecology and Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is author of numerous articles on social and ethical issues in the care of chronic illness.

“These essays explore medicine and society, health and politics, care and economics. Along the way, they raise urgent questions about the human condition itself. Bracing, thoughtful, elegant, witty, iconoclastic-The Social Medicine Reader is a terrific book, perhaps the best collection of teaching essays on the market.”-James A. Morone, author of Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History and co-editor of Healthy, Wealthy and Fair: Health Care for the Good Society "[E]xcellent. . . . The Social Medicine Reader fulfills its purposes admirably. The selected readings will stimulate critical analysis of the experiences of modern medicine from both professional and patient perspectives." - Samuel W. Bloom (JAMA)

• Preface to the Second Edition viiIntroduction 1Part I: The Uninsured, Health Care Costs, and Public Programs The U.S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowhere? / Jonathan Oberlander 5Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health Care / Uwe E. Reinhardt 25From Bismarck to Medicare - A Brief History of Medical Care Payment In America / Donald L. Madison 31The Sad History of Health Care Cost Containment as Told in One Chart / Drew E. Altman and Larry Levitt 67The Unsurprising Surprise of Renewed Health Care Cost Inflation / Henry J. Aaron 70The Not-So-Sad History of Medicare Cost: Containment as Told In One Chart / Thomas Bodenheimer 73Medicaid and Medicare: The Unanticipated Politics of Public Insurance Programs / Lawrence d. Brown and Michael S. Sparer 76Part II: Managed Care, Markets, and Rationing Bedside Manna / Deborah Stone 95Must Good HMOs Go Bad? The Commercialization of Prepaid Group Health Care / Robert Kuttner 107Defending My Life / Geov Parrish 119Business vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards for Managed Care / Wendy K. Mariner 128The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation / George J. Annas 150Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Canada / Jafna L. Cox 158Rationing in Practice: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization / Sharon Redmayne and Rudolf Klein 167Part III: International Perspectives and Emerging Issues Reforming the Health Care System: The Universal Dilemma / Uwe E. Reinhardt 179Health Care in Four Nations / Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach 199Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda / Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Robert H. Brook 230What's Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States? / Victor R. Fuchs 240Luxury Primary Care - Market Innovation or Threat to Access? / Troyen A. Brennan 246Correspondence: Response to "Luxury Primary Care" 255Limiting Health Care for the Old / Daniel Callahan 260Scapegoating the Aged: Intergenerational Equaity and Age-Based Rationing / Robert H. Binstock 267Index to Authors 285About the Editors 287