From bbennett@goucher.edu Thu Dec 25 18:50:18 1997 Received: from post.goucher.edu (post.goucher.edu [204.165.143.4]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with ESMTP id SAA04226 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 1997 18:50:17 -0700 (MST) Received: by post.goucher.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Thu, 25 Dec 1997 20:56:36 -0500 Message-ID: From: Beverly Bennett To: "'MEDSOC@csf.colorado.edu'" Subject: Help with last-minute course assignment Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 20:56:34 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain I've just been asked to teach a course in medical sociology starting in January and would be very grateful for assistance. My experience has been as a medical anthropologist; and my doctoral research was on health status, experiences of illness, and the utilization of diverse systems of medicine among indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. I've taught several courses in medical anthropology, as well as general sociology; and I do feel qualified to teach this new course. However, I'm not sure there is time to order the handbook on this from the ASA, at least certainly not before I need to turn in a book order! Therefore your suggestions would be most helpful. I envision a substantial portion of the course as focusing on health care in the U.S. today. I am considering also including emphases on three other subjects, partly because they would contextualize the U.S. system and partly in order to play to my own strengths: (1) the history of health, illness, and medicine (2) different approaches to health, illness, and medicine, including especially different subgroups within the U.S., both traditional approaches of different regional and ethnic groups and the newer attention to acupuncture and other so-called alternative medicines (3) different health care systems around the world, such as those of Canada, the UK, Japan, Cuba. Searching the Web, I found Prentice Hall's list of medical sociology texts, several of which look interesting. Could anyone comment on Gallagher's Global Perspectives on Health Care; Freund & McGuire's Health, Illness, and the Social Body; or Cockerham's Medical Sociology? Are there other publishers that have a number of texts in this field? Three other books that seem potentially useful are Sontag's Illness as Metaphor; Perrone et al's Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors;and Hand's Magical Medicine. Any comments? Any and all suggestions would be much appreciated. At this point books are a priority, but I'd be delighted to hear other ideas or referrals to sources. Thank you so much! And best wishes for the holidays to all! Sincerely, Beverly Bennett Goucher College From phuakl@sit.edu.my Thu Dec 25 21:13:07 1997 Received: from sit.edu.my (sit.edu.my [202.184.64.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with SMTP id VAA05232 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 1997 21:13:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from pmail.sit.edu.my by sit.edu.my (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05281; Fri, 26 Dec 97 12:11:41 SST Received: from LION/SpoolDir by pmail.sit.edu.my (Mercury 1.21); 26 Dec 97 12:17:43 +0800 Received: from SpoolDir by LION (Mercury 1.30); 26 Dec 97 12:17:12 +0800 From: "DR. PHUA KAI LIT" To: MedSoc@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 12:17:05 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Help with last-minute course assignment Cc: bbennett@goucher.edu Message-Id: <1957D907E48@pmail.sit.edu.my> I would suggest Peter Conrad's "Sociology of Health and Illness". Interesting concepts are the "medicalization" of social problems and medicine as a form of "social control". Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 20:56:34 -0500 Reply-to: MedSoc@csf.colorado.edu From: Beverly Bennett To: MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY Subject: Help with last-minute course assignment X-To: "'MEDSOC@csf.colorado.edu'" I've just been asked to teach a course in medical sociology starting in January and would be very grateful for assistance. My experience has been as a medical anthropologist; and my doctoral research was on health status, experiences of illness, and the utilization of diverse systems of medicine among indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. I've taught several courses in medical anthropology, as well as general sociology; and I do feel qualified to teach this new course. However, I'm not sure there is time to order the handbook on this from the ASA, at least certainly not before I need to turn in a book order! Therefore your suggestions would be most helpful. I envision a substantial portion of the course as focusing on health care in the U.S. today. I am considering also including emphases on three other subjects, partly because they would contextualize the U.S. system and partly in order to play to my own strengths: (1) the history of health, illness, and medicine (2) different approaches to health, illness, and medicine, including especially different subgroups within the U.S., both traditional approaches of different regional and ethnic groups and the newer attention to acupuncture and other so-called alternative medicines (3) different health care systems around the world, such as those of Canada, the UK, Japan, Cuba. Searching the Web, I found Prentice Hall's list of medical sociology texts, several of which look interesting. Could anyone comment on Gallagher's Global Perspectives on Health Care; Freund & McGuire's Health, Illness, and the Social Body; or Cockerham's Medical Sociology? Are there other publishers that have a number of texts in this field? Three other books that seem potentially useful are Sontag's Illness as Metaphor; Perrone et al's Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors;and Hand's Magical Medicine. Any comments? Any and all suggestions would be much appreciated. At this point books are a priority, but I'd be delighted to hear other ideas or referrals to sources. Thank you so much! And best wishes for the holidays to all! Sincerely, Beverly Bennett Goucher College From akolker@osf1.gmu.edu Fri Dec 26 14:21:20 1997 Received: from osf1.gmu.edu (osf1.gmu.edu [129.174.1.13]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with SMTP id OAA18230 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 14:21:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost by osf1.gmu.edu (5.65v4.0/1.1.8.2/07Sep94-1001AM/GMUv3) id AA06828; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 16:21:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 16:21:17 -0500 (EST) From: ALIZA KOLKER To: MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY Subject: Re: Beverly Bennett's request for help with med. soc. In-Reply-To: <199712261330.GAA11889@csf.Colorado.EDU> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have used Cockerham's "Medical Sociology" for several years. The 7th edition is out now. It is concise, well written, and includes an international perspective. There is also a companion reader. Hope this helps. Dr. Aliza Kolker Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 Telephone: (703) 993-1444/1440 From davise@emh.kadena.af.mil Sun Dec 28 17:50:47 1997 Received: from emh.kadena.af.mil ([132.15.128.128]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with ESMTP id RAA04130 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 1997 17:50:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from mss18-102.kadena.af.mil by emh.kadena.af.mil with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1458.49) id ZLPVL8BY; Mon, 29 Dec 1997 09:51:16 +0900 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19971229094428.006a87a8@emh.kadena.af.mil> X-Sender: davise@emh.kadena.af.mil Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 09:44:28 +0900 To: MedSoc@csf.colorado.edu From: "Edward B. Davis" Subject: Re: Help with last-minute course assignment Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Another approach is to look at the occupations and professions issues within the medical delivery system. There is plenty of literature on doctors becoming doctors, the role of nursing(is it a profession?)and the various other medical people who may be defined as the "fringe" of the medical delivery system by the MDs. Check out Andrew Abbotts work on psychiatric work, especially his notion of jurisdiction. Ed From tac98@dial.pipex.com Mon Dec 29 13:42:29 1997 Received: from monsoon.dial.pipex.net (monsoon.dial.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with SMTP id NAA25627 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 1997 13:42:27 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 11675 invoked from network); 29 Dec 1997 20:42:22 -0000 Received: from aj237.du.pipex.com (HELO ) (193.130.249.237) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 29 Dec 1997 20:42:22 -0000 Message-ID: <34A809C6.A06@dial.pipex.com> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 20:36:22 +0000 From: Ron Iphofen MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MedSoc@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Help with last-minute course assignment References: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------3B714E2BF4A" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------3B714E2BF4A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Beverly Bennett wrote: > Could anyone comment on Freund & McGuire's > Health, Illness, and the Social Body; I would recommend this book. It is comprehensive, covering most of the central topics in the field. Its emphasis on the concept of power offers vital insight into the "social-structural" influences on health and illness. It also has some useful bibliographic appendices. It would provide an excellent single course text, if only one was possible. Ron Iphofen --------------3B714E2BF4A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="SIGRI.SIG" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ron Iphofen Health Studies Research Division University of Wales, Bangor Archimedes Centre, Technology Park Wrexham LL13 7YP UK Tel: 01978 316311 Mobile: 0973 550919 e-mail:ron.iphofen@dial.pipex.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------3B714E2BF4A--