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Medical Humanities Bibliography: Health and Social Justice

Patrick S. O'Donnell, guest-blogger and bibliographic-making machine, has produced another extensive bibliography and graciously permitted me to make it available here on MH Blog for download:

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Bless you, Patrick!

Medical Humanities Bibliography: Social Inequalities on Health

Though this is (sadly) not one of Patrick S. O'Donnell's bibs, this helpful list of texts on social inequalities in health was compiled by a participant on the Spirit of 1848 listserv, so I thought I'd reproduce it here for MH Blog readers.  No claims that it is exhaustive, of course:

• Heyman, J., Hertzman, C., Barer, M. L., & Evans, R. G. (2006). Healthier Societies. From Analysis to Action. New York: NY, Oxford University press.
• Amick, B. J., Levine, S., Tarlov, A. R., & Chapman Walsh, D. (1995). Society and health. New York, N Y : Oxford University Press.
• Evans, R.G., Barer, M. L., & Marmor, T.R. (1994). Why are some people healthy and others not? New York : Walter de Gruyter Inc.
• Oakes, J.M., & Kaufman, J.S. (2006). Methods in social epidemiology. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass.
• Galea, S. (2007). Macrosocial determinants of population health.
• Dying For Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor, by Jim Yong Kim
• Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease-A Public Health Reader--edited volume (Richard Hofrichter) Jossey-Bass Press.
• The impact of inequality (wilkinson)
• The status syndrome (marmot)
• Ses and health in industrial nations (adler et al)
• Hilary Graham, Unequal Lives: Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities (Open University Press, 2007).
• Judith Green and Ronald Labonte (eds) Critical Perspectives in Public Health (NY: Routledge, 2008)
• Amy Shulz and Leith Mullings (eds) Gender, Race, Class, and Health: Intersectoral Approaches (SF: Jossey-Bass, 2006)
• Sandro Galea (ed.) Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health. (Secaucus, NJ: Springer, 2007).
• Richard Hofrichter & Rajiv Bhatia, Tackling Health Inequities through Public Health Practice: Theory to Action (Oxford University Press, fall 2009).
• Social Injustice and Public Health by Barry Levy and Victor Sidel, 2006
• Race, Ethnicity and Health by Thomas LaVeist, 2002.
• unhealthy health policy: a critical anthropological examination, arachu castro and merrill singer editors.
• The Society and Population Health Reader: Income Inequality and Health, Kawachi, Kennedy and Wilkinson, (eds.), The New Press, New York, 1999
• Poverty, Inequality and Health: An International Perspective, Leon and Walt (eds.), Oxford University Press, New York, 2001
• Social determinants of health, 2nd ed. eds. Marmot & Wilkinson, Oxford Univ Press. 2006.
• Kawachi and Kennedy's book, The Health of Nations
• Bartley, M. (2003). Understanding Health Inequalities. Oxford UK: Polity Press.
• Davey Smith, G. (Ed.). (2003). Inequalities in Health: Life Course Perspectives. Bristol UK: Policy Press.
• Raphael, D. (Ed.). (2004). Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
• Marone, J. & Jacobs, L. (2005). Healthy, Wealthy, & Fair: Health Care and the Good Society.
• Kawachi/Berkman et al Neighborhoods and Health
• Thomas LaVeist. Minority Populations And Health : An Introduction To Health Disparities In The United States 2005
• Leiyu Shi and LaVeist et al's Vulnerable Populations in the United States 2005
• Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action Evans, Whitehead, Diderichson, Bhuiya, Wirth (2001)
• Davey Smith, G. (Ed.). (2003). Inequalities in Health: Life Course Perspectives. Bristol UK: Policy Press.
• Navarro, V. (Ed.). (2002). The Political Economy of Social Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life. Amityville, NY: Baywood Press.
• Navarro, V. (Ed.). (2007). Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life. Amityville NY: Baywood Press.
• Navarro, V., & Muntaner, C. (Eds.). (2004). Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-being: Controversies and Developments. Amityville NY: Baywood Press.
• Julie Cwikel. Social Epidemiology - Strategies for Public Health Activism. Columbia University Press.

Medical Humanities Bibliography: Freudian Psychology

The connections between Freud's work and the medical humanities remains, to my mind, undertheorized.  This is at least in part because the fin-de-siècle is in my and many others minds particularly important in unpacking facets of contemporary medical practice.  Patrick S. O'Donnell's bibliography can help with the undertheorization, so enjoy:

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Transdisciplinary Bibliography on Emotions

Bibliographic machine Patrick S. O'Donnell has kindly allowed me to post a version of his bibliography on emotions.  As usual, O'Donnell's research is exhaustive, and crosses various disciplines.

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Bioethics Bibliography

Bibliographic machine Patrick S. O'Donnell has kindly supplied us with another one of his amazing bibliographies, this one on bioethics.  Download it here: Download Bioethics_bibliography.doc 

Medical Humanities Bibliography: On Death & Dying

MH Blog Contributor Patrick S. O'Donnell has very kindly put together one of his patented, amazing bibliographies, this one on death & dying.  It is organized thematically into spiritual traditions as well as secular approaches.  Just looking at it tires me out.

You can download it here (.DOC): Download death_and_dying_bibliography.doc

Many thanks, Patrick!

Chinese Medicine: A Selected Bibliography

This is an introductory list of secondary sources in English for the study of “magical, classical and traditional Chinese medicine.” It is thus in no way exhaustive. I purposely avoided (with a few exceptions) journal articles so as to keep the list manageable. Readers who know of titles they believe to be conspicuously missing from this introductory compilation can make note of them in the comments. I hope it proves useful to those comparatively new to this particular field of knowledge and praxis in complementary and alternative medicine. Perhaps we can inaugurate a new category: "Medical Humanities Bibliographies." (Daniel is well aware of my penchant for composing lists of this sort.)

• Bensky, Dan and Randall Barolet. Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formula and Strategies. Seattle, WA: Eastland Press, 1990.
• Bensky, Dan, Steven Clavey, and Erich Stöger. Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica. Seattle, WA: Eastland Press, 3rd ed., 2004. 
• Bensoussan, Alan. The Vital Meridian: A Modern Exploration of Acupuncture. Melbourne: Churchill Livingstone, 1991.
• Chang, Hson-Mou and Paul Pui-Hay But. Pharmacology and Applications of Chinese Materia Medica. 2 Vols. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 1986.
• Clavey, Steven. Fluid Physiology and Pathology in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2nd ed., 2003.
• Farquhar, Judith. Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.
• Fruehauf, Heiner. “Chinese Medicine in Crisis: Science, Politics, and the Making of ‘TCM,’” The Journal of Chinese Medicine, 61/6, October 1999. Online version (slightly longer): http://www.classicalchinesemedicine.org/ccm/index.htm
• Harper, Donald. Early Chinese Medical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts. London: Kegan Paul, 1998.
• Hsu, Elisabeth. The Transmission of Chinese Medicine. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Kaptchuk, Ted J. The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine. Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books, 2nd ed., 2000.
• Kuriyama, Shigehisa. The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine. New York: Zone Books, 1999.
• Leslie, Charles and Alan Young, eds. Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.
• Lloyd, Geoffrey and Nathan Sivin. The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.
• Maciocia, Giovanni. The Foundations of Chinese Medicine. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1989.
• Maciocia, Giovanni. Obstetrics and Gynecology in Chinese Medicine. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1998 ed.
• Maciocia, Giovanni. Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2004.
• Maciocia, Giovanni. The Practice of Chinese Medicine: The Treatment of Diseases with Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2nd ed., 2007.
• Porkert, Manfred. The Theoretical Foundations of Chinese Medicine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1974.
• Scheid, Volker. Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
• Scheid, Volker. Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine, 1626-2006. Seattle, WA: Eastland Press, 2007.
• Sivin, Nathan. Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China. Ann Arbor, MI: Center of Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1987.
• Sivin, Nathan. “Science and Medicine in Chinese History,” 1990, accessed at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/writ.html
• Sivin, Nathan. “Text and Experience in Early Chinese Medicine,” (1999) See above for URL.
• Strickmann, Michel (Bernard Faure, ed.). Chinese Magical Medicine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.
• Thagard, Paul and Jing Zhu. “Acupuncture, Commensurability, and Conceptual Change,” in Sinatra, G.M. and P. R. Pintrich, eds. Intentional Conceptual Change. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 79-102. Available at http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articles/Pages/Disease.html
• Unschuld, Paul U. Nan-Ching: The Classic of Difficult Issues. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986.
• Unschuld, Paul U. Medicine in China: A History of Ideas. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988.

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