READINGS FOR CULTURAL ASPECTS OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
Spring, 2012
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Part 1 |
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Syllabus Week 1: Jan 17 |
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Introduction to Cultural Aspects of Clinical Medicine |
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BusinessWeek online: Medical Guesswork |
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Fleisher: Hands On |
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Goodwin: Culture and Medicine |
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Blumhagen: The Doctor’s White Coat |
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Week 2: Jan 24 The Culture of the Emergency Room |
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Grim: How to Crack a Chest |
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Lazare: Shame and Humiliation in the Medical
Encounter |
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Transue: Shreds of a Flowered Shirt |
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Dahlberg and Reese: Investigative Report: Deaths in
ER’s sparking concern |
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Week 3: Jan 31 Health and Disease |
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The Social Construction of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome |
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Kleinman: What is Specific to Biomedicine? |
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Week 4: Feb 7 Illness and Sickness |
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Frank: The Cost of Appearances |
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Cassell: The Nature of Suffering |
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Trillin: Of Dragons and Garden Peas |
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Broyard: Intoxicated by my Illness |
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Week 5: Feb 14 Social and Cultural Influences on Health and Malady |
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Pachter: Culture and Clinical Care |
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Carmichael: The Great Divide Landau: How Medicine is Advancing Beyond Race Watters: The Americanization of Mental Illness |
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Week 6: Feb 21 A Scorecard |
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The Hospitalist Brown: Physician, Heel Thyself |
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Burrows: The Man Who Didn’t Know He Had Cancer |
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Angell: Drug Companies and Doctors |
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Week 7: Feb 28 Healing Thoughts |
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Rodkin: The New Doctors |
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Gianakos: Alternative Healer |
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Strathern and Stewart: Illness and the Emotions |
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Week 8: Mar 6 |
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On Becoming a Doctor |
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Detsky: The Art of Pimping |
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Millett: Doctors with Borders Gawande: Education of a Knife Verghese: Culture
Shock—Patient as Icon, Icon as Patient |
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Part 2 Week 10: Mar 20 Examining Doctors |
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Broyard: Doctor, Talk to Me |
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Jonsen: Watching the Doctor |
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Groopman: Surgery and Satisfaction |
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Week 11: Mar 27 The Doctor and Patient Meet |
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Gawande: Naked |
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Safran: Patients’ Trust in Their Doctors: Are We
Losing Ground? |
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Verghese: Lives; Close
Encounter of the Human Kind |
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Churchill and Schenk:
Healing Skills for Medical Practice |
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Week 12: Apr 3 Patients and Their Problems |
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Sanghavi: The Phantom Menace of Sleep Deprived
Doctors |
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Carey: In the Hospital, a Degrading Shift From Person
to Patient |
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Gawande: The Bell Curve Raloff: July: When Not to
Go to the Hospital |
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Week 13: Apr 10 Cultural Aspects of Clinical Medicine |
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Chen: The Informal
Curriculum |
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Hunter: “There was this one guy...” The Uses of Anecdotes
in Medicine |
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Steiner and Earnest: Lingua Medica: The Language of
Medicine-Taking |
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Hess: We’ll Replace the Valve |
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Week 14: Apr 17 Medicine and Culture |
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Fishman, Ten Have and Casarett: Cancer and the Media Bellafante: ‘Boston Med’; In Hospitals the Reality is
Real |
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Nuland: Whoops! |
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Roan: On TV, plastic
surgery shows its best face |
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Week 15: Apr 24 Cultural Change in Medicine |
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Gawande: On Washing Hands |
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Levinson and Lurie: When Most Doctors Are Women Hawn: Take Two Aspirin and Tweet Me in the Morning |
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Goldstein: As Doctors Get
a Life, Strains Show |
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Kahn: Etiquette-Based Medicine |
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