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Medical Sociology 759 Professor Matthew Archibald Revised syllabus - June 2006 Office: Tarbutton 213 with new disability readings in bold Tel:727-5488; Marchib@emory.edu Course Description: Medical Sociology 759 is a survey course that applies sociological principles to medicine, health, illness, and health care. To fully develop insights generated by this framework, it is necessary to situate medicine, health, illness, and health care in a variety of institutional domains: economic markets, politics, science, religion, and culture, broadly construed. Topics include but are not limited to: medical and sociological models of illness, epidemiology, epidemics, an (abbreviated) history of medicine in the West, public health, the social stratification of illness, medicalization and de-medicalization of illness, disability, individuals 9 experience of illness, the medical profession, health care systems in developing countries, health care provision, access and delivery, complementary and alternative health care, and, the contemporary U.S.

health movement. Responsibilities, Evaluation and Progress: Students are responsible for reading and discussing the material each week. During one of those weeks, each student will prepare a summary of the readings including questions and criticisms (2-3 pages), distribute the summary, and lead the discussion.

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form of periodic summaries (1-2 pages). Lastly, there is a final paper (15-20 pages) covering your own research interests, the content of which can vary widely. You may do a literature review, a research proposal, a dissertation or masters 9 prospectus or work on an empirical project. Grades are based on participation (20%), two discussion-lead (25%), periodic summaries (20%) and a final paper (55%). Texts: Conrad, Peter and Valerie Leiter (eds.). 2003. Health and Health Care as Social Problems . Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. Turner, Bryan. 2004. The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness . New York: Norton. Starr, Paul. 1982. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry . Basic Books. Reader in medical sociology, compiled 2005, revised June 2006. Course Outline and Calendar: Medical Sociology Week 1 Introduction: definitions and concepts, medical model of illness, sociological model of illness, epidemiology. Required Readings: (1) Turner, Bryan S. 2000. cThe History of the Changing Concepts of Health and Illness: Outline of a General Model of Illness Categories. d Pp. 9-23 in The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, Gary Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Susan Scrimshaw (eds). London: Sage. (2) Turner, Bryan. 2004. cIntroduction. d Pp. xiii-xxviii in The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness . New York: Norton. (3) Weitz, Rose. 2001. The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach, 2 nd ed. New York: Wadsworth. Pp. 17-31 125-128, 117- 125 Supplemental readings: (4) Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health . 1987. Edited by Benjamin F. Miller, MD, and Claire Brackman Keane, RN,BS,MEd. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company. Pp. 747-748; (5) Encyclopedia of Medical History . 1985. Edited by Roderick E. McGrew and Margaret P. McGrew. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Pp. 108-111 Week 2 (Abbreviated) history of medicine: epidemics and medicine from the middle ages to the twentieth century. Required Readings: (1) Inglis, Brian. 1965. A History of Medicine . Cleveland: World. Pp. 49-71, 87- 95, 111- 116, 124- 128, 133-165 (2) Turner, Bryan. 2004. cDisease and Culture. d Pp. 82-130 in The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness . New York: Norton. (3) Encyclopedia of Medical History pp. 165-172, 37-45, 59-64 Week 3 (Abbreviated) history of public health. Required Readings: (1) A History of Medicine pp. 165-171 (2) Public Health Sourcebook . 1999. Health Reference Series, edited by Wendy Wilcox. Detroit: Omnigraphics, Inc. (3) Encyclopedia of Medical History pp. 284-291 (4) Meyer IH, Schwartz S. 2000: cSocial Issues as Public Health: Promise and Peril. d American Journal of Public Health 90 (8): 1189-1191. Supplemental readings: (5) Inhorn, Marcia C. and Peter Brown (eds.) 1997. The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives . New York: Gordon and Breach Publishers. Week 4 Social distribution of illness: inequality Required Readings: (1) Williams, David R. and Chiquita Collins. 1999. cU.S. Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Health: Patterns and Explanations. d Pp. 349-377 in Health, Illness and Healing: Society, Social Context and Self, An Anthology , eds. Kathy Charmaz and Debora A. Paterniti. L.A: Roxbury Publishing. (2) Robert, Stephanie A. and James S. House. 2000. cSocioeconomic Inequalities in Health: Integrating Individual-, Community-, and Societal-Level Theory and Research. d Pp.115-135 in The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, Gary Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Susan Scrimshaw (eds). London:Sage. (3) Lane, Sandra D. and Donald A. Cibula. 2000. cGender and Health. d Pp.136- 153 in The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, Gary Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Susan Scrimshaw (eds). London:Sage (4) Baynton, Douglas, C. 2001. " Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History" in The New Disability History: American Perspectives. Eds. Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umamsky. NY: New York UP. Pp. 33-57. (5) Hahn, Harlan. The Political Implications of Disability Definitions and Data. Journal of Disability Policy Studies; 1993; 4(2): 41-52. (6) Yount, Kathryn M. 2002. dLike Mother, like Daughter? Female Genital Cutting in Minia, Egypt. d Journal of Health and Social Behavior , 43(3): 336- 358. Supplemental readings: (7) Pappas G, Queen S, Hadden W, Fisher G. 1993. The Increasing Disparity In Mortality Between Socioeconomic Groups in The United States, 1960 And 1986. New England Journal of Medicine 329(3) : 103-109. (8) Lantz PM, House JS, Lepkowski JM, Williams DR, Mero RP, Chen J. 1998. Socioeconomic Factors, Health Behaviors and Mortality. Journal of the American Medical Association 279 (21): 1703-1708. Week 5 Medicalization and the social construction of health and illness. Required Readings: (1) Turner, Bryan. 2004. cThe Social Construction of Knowledge. d Pp. 36-81 in The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness . New York: Norton. (2) Pfohl, Stephen J. 2003. cThe 8Discovery 9 of Child Abuse. d Pp. 69-86 in Health and Health Care as Social Problems, Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter (eds). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. (3) Johnson, Michael P. and Karl Hufbauer. 2003. cSudden Infant Death Syndrome and a Medical Research Problem since 1945. d Pp. 87-106 in Health and Health Care as Social Problems, Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter (eds). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield (4) Schnieder, Joseph W. 2003. cDrinking as a Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment. d Pp. 9-24 in Health and Health Care as Social Problems, Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter (eds). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield (5) Conrad, Peter and Deborah Potter. 2003. cFrom Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical Categories. d Pp. 39-66 in Health and Health Care as Social Problems, Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter (eds). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield (6) Kudlick, Catherine J. 2003. "Disability History: Why We Need Another 'Other'," The American Historical Review 108: 763-793. Supplemental readings: (7) Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. 1997. "Anorexia Nervosa in Context." In The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, 5th edition ed. Peter Conrad. New York: St. Martin's Press, 110-124. (8) Kushner, Howard I., Christena H. Turner, John F. Bastian, & Jane C. Burns. 2004. cThe Narratives of Kawasaki Disease d Bulletin of the History of Medicine , 78: 410-439. Week 6 Experiences of health and illness Required Readings: (1) McElroy, Ann and Mary Ann Jezewski. 2000. cCultural Variation in the Experience of Health and Illness. d Pp. 191-209 in The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, Gary Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Susan Scrimshaw (eds). London:Sage. (2) Klienman, Arthur and Don Seeman. 2000. cPersonal Experience of Illness. d Pp. 230-242 in The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, Gary Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Susan Scrimshaw (eds). London:Sage. (3) Kathy Charmaz. 2000. cExperiencing Chronic Illness. d Pp. 277-292 in The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, Gary Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Susan Scrimshaw (eds). London:Sage (4) Garland -Thomson, Rosemarie. 1997. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature . New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. 5-18. (5) Johnson, Harriet Mcbryde. 2003. Unspeakable Conversations. The New York Times Magazine February 16, 2003. Supplemental readings: (6) Turner, Bryan. 2004. cTime, Self and Disruption. d Pp. 131-162 in The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness . New York: Norton. (7) Goffman, Erving. Stigma : Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall; 1963. Week 7 Addiction Required Readings: (1) Gardner, Eliot L. 1999. cThe Neurobiology and Genetics of Addiction: Implications of the 8Reward Deficiency Syndrome 9 for Therapeutic Strategies in Chemical Dependency. d Pp. 57-119 in Addiction: Entries and Exits, Jon Elster (ed). New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (2) Waal, Helge and Jorg Morland. 1999. cAddiction as Impeded Rationality. d Pp. 120-148 in Addiction: Entries and Exits, Jon Elster (ed). New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (3) Watson, Gary. 1999. cDisordered Appetites: Addiction, Compulsion, and Dependence. d Pp. 3-28 in Addiction: Entries and Exits, Jon Elster (ed). New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Supplemental readings: (4) Acker, Caroline Jean. 1999. cAddicts as Objects of Study: Clinical Encounters in the 1920s. d Pp. 279-300 in Addiction: Entries and Exits, Jon Elster (ed). New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (5) Sterk, Claire E. 1999. Fast Lives: Women Who Use Crack Cocaine . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. Week 8 Professionalization Required Readings: (1) Timmermans, Stefan and Alison Angell. 2001. cEvidence-Based Medicine, Clinical Uncertainty, and Learning to Doctor. d Journal of Health and Social Behavior . 42: 342-359. (2) Hafferty, Frederic. 1999. "Mr. Kiwauski." In Health, Illness and Healing: Society, Social Context and Self, An Anthology , eds. Kathy Charmaz and Debora A. Paterniti. L.A: Roxbury Publishing, 207-219. (3) Klass, Perri. 1999. "A Weekend in the Life of a Medical Student." In Health, Illness and Healing: Society, Social Context and Self, An Anthology , eds. Kathy Charmaz and Debora A. Paterniti. L.A: Roxbury Publishing, 121-131. Supplemental readings: (4) Encyclopedia of Medical History . Pp. 179-184 Week 9 Medical authority Required Readings: (1) Starr, Paul. 1982. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry . Basic Books. Book I. Week 10 Social insurance Required Readings: (1) Starr, Paul. 1982. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry . Basic Books. Book II. Week 11 Health care systems Required Readings: (1) Scott, W. Richard., Ruef, Martin, Mendel, Peter J., & Caronna, Carol A. 2000. Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 1-69 (2) Bodenheimer, Thomas S. and Kevin Grumbach. 2002. Understanding Health Policy . New York: McGraw-Hill. Chapters 4-7. (3) Sosin, Michael R. cNegotiating Case Decisions in Substance Abuse Managed Care. d Journal of Health and Social Behavior , 43:277-295 Supplemental readings: (5) Weitz 223-246; 249-257 Week 12 Health movements Required Readings: (1) Brown, Stephen, Stephen Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Rebecca Gasior Altman. 2004. cEmbodied Health Movements: New Approaches To Social Movements In Health. d Sociology of Health and Illness , 26:1-31 (2) Gamson, Josh. 2003. cSilence, death and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement 8Newness 9. d Pp. 125-144 in Health and Health Care as Social Problems, Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter (eds). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. (3) Quinby, Ernest and Samuel R. Friedman. 2003. cDynamics of Black Mobilization against AIDS in New York City. d Pp. 145-160 in Health and Health Care as Social Problems, Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter (eds). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. Supplemental readings: (4) Turner, Bryan. 2004. cThe New Medical Sociology. d Pp. 270-313 in The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness . New York: Norton. Week 13 Disability movements Required Readings: (1) DeJong, Gerben. 1983. Defining and Implementing the Independent Living Concept. Independent Living for Physically Disabled People. Nancy M. Crewe, Irving Kenneth Zola, and Associates (editors). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. Chapter 1. (2) Shapiro, Joseph. 1993. No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. New York: Times Books/Random House. Supplemental readings: (3) Shakespeare, Tom. 1993. Disabled People's Self-Organisation: A New Social Movement? Disability, Handicap & Society. 8(3): 249-64. (4) Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames. 2001. The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. Week 14 Presentation and discussion of papers

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