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vol 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine

The Social Medicine Reader, 2nd ed, vol 1: Patients, Doctors, and Illness, edited by Nancy M. P. King, Ronald P. Strauss, Larry R. Churchill, Sue E. Estroff, Gail E. Henderson, and Jonathan Oberlander, 294 pp, paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8223-3568-9
vol 2: Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality, edited by Gail E. Henderson, Sue E. Estroff, Larry R. Churchill, Nancy M. P. King, Jonathan Oberlander, and Ronald P. Strauss, 323 pp, paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8223-3593-X
vol 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine, edited by Jonathan Oberlander, Larry R. Churchill, Sue E. Estroff, Gail E. Henderson, Nancy M. P. King, and Ronald P. Strauss, 288 pp, paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8223-3569-7, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2005.

JAMA. 2006;295:1842-1844.

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The mission of this collection, write the editors, is "to inform the work and thought of researchers, teachers, and practitioners on the social conditions and characteristics of patients, causes of illness, and barriers to effective care, and the responsibilities of the medical profession and other medical institutions." These are the standard issues in the teaching of public health, behavioral science, and medical ethics to undergraduate medical students and to residents and fellows in community medicine and public health. For these audiences, The Social Medicine Reader is a carefully designed and tested textbook.

First published in 1997 in a single-volume edition by members of the Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, the collection's expansion to three volumes represents the increased importance and dilemmas of the financing and provision of health care and the effects of new technologies and strategies. The method of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Samuel W. Bloom, PhD, Reviewer
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY
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