Emerging Illnesses and Society

Negotiating the Public Health Agenda
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7942-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

How do new diseases become part of the public health agenda? Emerging Illnesses and Society brings together historians, sociologists, epidemiologists, public health experts, and others to explore this vital issue. Contributors describe the processes by which patients' groups interact with medical researchers, public health institutions, and the media to identify and address previously unknown illnesses, including multiple sclerosis, Tourette syndrome, AIDS, lead poisoning, Lyme disease, and hepatitis C. The introductory chapter develops a general theoretical model of the social process of "emerging"illness, identifying critical epidemiologic, social and political factors that shape different trajectories toward the construction of public health priorities. Through case studies of individual diseases and analyses of public awareness campaigns and institutional responses, this timely volume provides important insights into the medical, social, and economic factors that determine why some illnesses receive more attention and funding than others.

Contributors: Deborah Barrett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Steven Epstein, University of California, San Diego; Phyllis Freeman, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Diane E. Goldstein, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Peter J. Krause, University of Connecticut School of Medicine; Howard I. Kushner, Emory University; Lawrence D. Mass, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York; Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto; Lydia Ogden, Global AIDS Program, CDCR; Sandy Smith-Nonini, Elon University; Ellen Griffith Spears, Southern Regional Council; Andrew Spielman, Harvard School of Public Health; Colin Talley, University of California San Francisco; Sam R. Telford III, Harvard School of Public Health; Christian Warren, New York Academy of Medicine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Packard, Randall M

Berkelman, Ruth L

Frumkin, Howard

Brown, Peter J

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction / Emerging Illness as Social Process
Part I: Making Illnesses Visible
Chapter 2. The Combined Efforts of Community and Science / American Culture, Patient Activism, and the Multiple Sclerosis Movement in the United States
Chapter 3. Competing Medical Cultures, Patient Support Groups, and the Construction of Tourette Syndrome
Chapter 4. Democracy, Expertise, and Activism for AIDS Treatment
Chapter 5. Communities of Suffering and the Internet
Chapter 6. Illness Movements and the Medical Classification of Pain and Fatigue
Chapter 7. The Newtown Florist Club and the Quest for Environmental Justice in Gainesville, Georgia
Chapter 8. Occupational Health from Below / The Women Office Workers' Movement and the Hazardous Office
Part II: Institutional Responses to Emerging Illnesses
Chapter 9. "Always with Us" / Childhood Lead Poisoning as an Emerging Illness
Chapter 10. The Cultural Politics of Institutional Responses to Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemics / New York City and Lima, Peru
Chapter 11. Institutional Responses to the Emergence of Lyme Disease and Its Companion Infections in North America / A Public Health Perspective
Chapter 12. The Politics of Institutional Responses / CDC and the Controversy over Maternal and Newborn HIV Testing
Chapter 13. Emerging Infections and the CDC Response
Chapter 14. Hepatitis C and the News Media / Lessons from AIDS
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brown, Peter J
Peter J. Brown is co-director of the Center for Health, Culture and Society at Emory University.

Packard, Randall M
Randall M. Packard is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa; The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria; A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples; and coeditor of Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda.

Berkelman, Ruth L
Ruth L. Berkelman, is a clinician and professor of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Frumkin, Howard
Howard Frumkin is chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Randall M. Packard is director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. Peter J. Brown is co-director of the Center for Health, Culture and Society at Emory University. Ruth L. Berkelman, is a clinician and professor of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Howard Frumkin is chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.