Canada's universal health-care system has been a boon for many, but it has not come without costs, both financial and in greater hegemony gained by allopathic medicine. Nonetheless, other alternative medical practices have maintained and even grown in influence, including chiropractic, naturopathy, and especially in Ontario, midwifery. The role of nurses in the medical care system is examined at length, as is the extensive and profit-motivated impact of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Numerous tables and figures detail everything from occupational diseases to women in medicine, and many special interest boxes describe such significant actors in medical history such as Tommy Douglas and Banting and Best, and landmark events such as the Grange Inquiry into deaths at the Hospital for Sick Children in Ontario and the chemical disaster in Bhopal, India that killed thousands and maimed many more. The second edition of Dr. Clarke's important work on the sociology of health, illness and medicine, which includes extensive updating and three new chapters, emphasizes the changes in our society and how those changes affect our ideas about our own physical and emotional well-being.

Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada

Clarke, Juanne Nancarrow

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Oxford University Press

Professor Juanne Clarke has spent her career as a medical sociologist, exploring the public health system and the personal health systems of individuals. One of her book examined how women with breast cancer deal with diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Then her 17-year-old daughter Lauren was diagnosed with leukemia, and the theories and paradigms of academe gave way to the real-life struggle of a mother and her daughter for healing and for the best medical treatment possible. Finding Strength details two years in the lives of these two women, from early symptoms and denial, through diagnosis and two years of treatment, to a clean bill of health. Each chapter first describes the events of a particular time and then discusses the literature on the subject, relating to their own experience what medical and sociological researches have found. The book also includes an extensive bibliography and a list of resources for childhood cancer.

Finding Strength: A Mother and Daughter's Story of Childhood Cancer

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Oxford Univ. Pr.

This new edition of this thorough and well-received study of the sociology of health, illness, and medicine has been expanded and completely revised. It includes up-to-date findings on how people try to stay healthy and how they respond to illnesses of varying degrees. The book features new chapters on nursing and midwifery and on complementary and alternative medicine and now includes over 100 tables and figures, as well as numerous vignettes on such topics as medical technologies, pioneers in medicine, epidemics, environmental disasters, and the history of medicine. Canada's healthcare system has largely been defined by physicians, hospital administrators, and government bureaucrats. The system has had tremendous successes but retains a bias against alternative medicines, similar to the trend in the United States. One of the central questions in modern medicine now is how to balance the sometimes contradictory goals of preserving life and preserving the quality of life. Clarke adds important new information for the debate. He uses four different sociological perspectives--structural-functional, conflict, symbolic interactionist, and feminist--to examine occupational diseases; environmental challenges; the inequities of age, gender, class, race, and ethnicity; the experience of getting sick and going to the doctor; and the extent and impact of private industries on pharmaceuticals and medicine. The book also considers the Canadian healthcare system in both historical and international contexts.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

A well-written, student friendly text, Health, Illness and Medicine in Canada provides students with insight into the issues surrounding the sociology of health, illness and medicine in Canada. Part one addresses the major sociological approaches of structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism, feminist theory, and conflict theory. Part two shifts focus to more immediate issues relating to sociology of health and medicine - social inequity, disease, and death, while taking a first-hand look at the experience of being ill. This section also features a unique case study on women and cancer. Part three of the text is devoted to the sociology of medicine, and takes an extensive look at pertinent issues such as social constructs of scientific and medical knowledge and medical practice, medicalization, the medical profession, the roles of nurses and midwives in a changing health-care system, complementary and alternative medicine, and the medical-industrial complex.

Social Sciences

Product Description 
The classic introduction to health and medical sociology that gives students a thorough and accessible overview of Canada's evolving health care system. Exploring the theories and issues of health and medical sociology in Canada, this revised and updated eighth edition continues to provide an engaging and authoritative introduction to the field. Balancing theoretical and practical concerns, this text provides a foundation to the field of health sociology with coverage of the major sociological approaches before moving on to discuss key issues impacting Canadians. 
 Review 
"A clear, comprehensive, and engaging overview of essential concepts, social issues, and broader contexts necessary for a critical engagement with the sociology of health and illness in Canada." - Cynthia Levine-Rasky, Queen's University\n"This text is an excellent introduction to the breadth and complexity of contemporary sociological health and illness issues in Canada. The author weaves foundational concepts such as the social determinants of health and medicalization with newer additions to the field such as climate change, alternative health treatments, and the #MeToo movement." -Alissa Overend, Grant MacEwan University\n"Clarke has done a great job of covering topics relevant to health sciences students pursuing a Canadian education. " -Kerry-Anne Hogan RN PhD, University of Ottawa\n"[This text] does not shy away from confronting the complexity of the medical/pharmaceutical-industrial complex while providing a rich contextualization of social determinants of health within neo-liberalism and social inequity frames." -Lisa F. Carver, Queen's University 
 About the Author 
Juanne Nancarrow Clarke is a professor emeritus of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Proquest Uglies

When Medicine Goes Awry: Case Studies in Medically Caused Suffering and Death

University of Toronto Press

Review\n"Juanne Nancarrow Clarke’s comparative sociological analysis of patient- and provider-focused case studies of medical errors offers an important glimpse into their systemic causes and potential solutions." -- Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Professor of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa, and Founder of the Canadian Society for the Sociology of Health\n"When Medicine Goes Awry is an innovative and distinctive addition to our limited understanding of medical mistakes and their damaging consequences for the people maltreated. Juanne Nancarrow Clarke employs sociological concepts including medicalization, pharmaceuticalization, and health determinants to analytically connect seven recent Canadian cases of medical calamities caused by health care providers of different genders and professions that led to unnecessary suffering and, in some cases, death. Clarke’s book is a creative addition to the sociology of medicine and health care." -- Cecilia Benoit, PhD, Scientist, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, and Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria\nMedical error often results in disability, pain, and suffering, and it is the third leading cause of death in hospitals. Despite its frequency, medical error has been largely invisible to the mainstream public. Within the medical system itself, medical error is often understood as the result of an isolated case of malpractice. 
When Medicine Goes Awry argues that the causes of medical error are not an anomaly but rather the outcome of a number of factors at play, ranging from political to social to economic. When Medicine Goes Awry dismisses the common blame perspective associated with medical malpractice, instead asserting that medical error is – and will continue to be – inevitable, given the relentless and expanding processes of medicalization. Shedding light on the ways these forces lead to medicine going awry, the book examines seven well-known cases of medical error. Taking an in-depth look at both patients and medical care providers, Juanne Nancarrow Clarke offers a novel approach to medical error or mishap that applies sociological research and theory to the larger societal forces contributing to a taxing and endemic medical problem.

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Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada

Finding Strength: A Mother and Daughter's Story of Childhood Cancer

Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada

Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada

Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada

Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada

When Medicine Goes Awry: Case Studies in Medically Caused Suffering and Death

When Medicine Goes Awry: Case Studies in Medically Caused Suffering and Death