Health and health care as social problems

Introduction / Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter

Pt. I. Medicalization

1. Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment / Joseph W. Schneider

2. Primum Non Nocere: Chemical Execution and the Limits of Medical Social Control / Herb Haines

3. From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical Categories / Peter Conrad and Deborah Potter

Pt. II. Social Construction of Health Problems

4. "Discovery" of Child Abuse / Stephen J. Pfohl

5. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as a Medical Research Problem since 1945 / Michael P. Johnson and Karl Hufbauer

6. Officer Ugg, Mr. Yuk, Uncle Barf ... Ad Nausea: Controlling Poison Control, 1950-1985 / Robert S. Broadhead

Pt. III. Social Movements

7. Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement "Newness" / Josh Gamson

8. Dynamics of Black Mobilization against AIDS in New York City / Ernest Quimby and Samuel R. Friedman

9. Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast Cancer / Maren Klawiter

Pt. IV. Gender

10. Politics of Menopause: The "Discovery" of a Deficiency Disease / Frances B. McCrea

11. Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender / Diana Dull and Candace West

12. Emergence of Premenstrual Syndrome as a Social Problem / C. Amanda Rittenhouse

Pt. V. Race, Class, and Health Care

13. Race versus Class in the Health Care of African-American Elderly / Steven P. Wallace

14. Lessons in Control: Prenatal Education in the Hospital / Elizabeth M. Armstrong

Pt. VI. Medical Accountability

15. Sick Doctors: The Social Construction of Professional Deviance / Carol Klaperman Morrow

16. Changing Doctor-Patient Relationships and the Rise in Concern for Accountability / Michael Betz and Lenahan O'Connell

17. Changing Medical Practice and Medical Malpractice Claims / Stephen L. Fielding.