On Being a Cripple

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the Third Edition ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Differences, and Inequalities 3
6. Part I. Defining and Experiencing Differences
7. Beyond Medicalisation 31
8. On Being a Cripple 37
9. What You Mourn 48
10. Physicians’ Juries for Defective Babies 50
11. Blind, Deaf, and Pro-Eugenics: Helen Keller’s Advice in Context 52
12. Tell Me, Tell Me 54
13. Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man 61
14. I Have Diabetes. Am I to Blame? 62
15. Part II. Sickness amid Relationships
16. Twisted Lies: My Journey in an Imperfect Body 67
17. Raising a Woman 78
18. The Sick Wife 83
19. The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver 84
20. Fathers and Sons 92
21. Parents Support Group 93
22. Part III. Social Factors and Inequalities
23. “Doctors Don’t Know Anything”: The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health 97
24. Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It 116
25. Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility to Clinical Settings 127
26. The Racist Patient 132
27. The Social Determinants of Health: Coming of Age 134
28. Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine 156
29. Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge 170
30. Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They? 188
31. Taking Race Out of Human Genetics: Engaging a Century-Long Debate about the Role of Race in Science 204
32. Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the United States of America: Evidence and Interventions 209
33. America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic 235
34. Is the Prescription Opioid Epidemic a White Problem? 254
35. Understanding Associations between Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: Patterns and Prospects 258
36. Can Disparities Be Deadly? Controversial Research Explores Whether Living in an Unequal Society Can Make People Sick 268
37. Religion and Global Health 275
38. Part IV. Politics, Institutions, and Care
39. Thinking through the Pain 297
40. Unfinished Journey: The Struggle over Universal Health Insurance in the United States 305
41. On Incarceration and Health: Reframing the Discussion 314
42. Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods 318
43. About the Editors 341
44. Index 343