Literature
Based on the literature list below, course participants will set up their own reading lists for their participation in this course, choosing 400 pages from the following literature.
Album, Dag, Lars EF Johannessen, and Erik B. Rasmussen. "Stability and change in disease prestige: A comparative analysis of three surveys spanning a quarter of a century." Social Science & Medicine (2017).
Aronowitz R. Framing disease: an underappreciated mechanism for the social patterning of health. Social science & medicine. 2008;67(1):1-9.
Aronowitz R. Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Boorse C. A Second Rebuttal on Health. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2014; 39:683-724.
Boorse C. On the Distincion Between Disease and Illness. Philosophy and Public Affairs 1975;5: 49-68.
Carel H. Can I Be Ill and Happy? Philosophia, 2007; 35: 95–110
Clouser KD, Culver CM, Gert B. Malady. In: Almeder RF, Humber JM (eds). What is a disease? Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1997: 173-217. (F?lgende kan v?re lettere ? f? tak i: Clouser, K. D., Culver, C. M., & Gert, B. (1981). Malady: a new treatment of disease. Hastings Cent Rep, 11(3), 29-37.)
Conrad, Peter, and Kristin K. Barker. "The social construction of illness key insights and policy implications." Journal of health and social behavior 51.1 suppl (2010): S67-S79.
Csordas, Thomas J. "Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology." Ethos 18.1 (1990): 5-47.
D’Amico R. Is disease a natural kind? Jornal of Medicine and Philosophy 1995; 20: 551-69.
Feiring E. Lifestyle, responsibility and justice. Journal of Medical Ethics 2008;34:33-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme.2006.019067
Fulford KW. ‘What is (mental) disease?’: an open letter to Christopher Boorse. Journal of Medical Ethics 2001;27:80–85.
Gabbay J, Le May A. Evidence based guidelines or collectively constructed “mindlines?” Ethnographic study of knowledge management in primary care. BMJ 2004 Oct 30;329(7473):1013.
Greenhalgh, Trisha. Evidence-based medicine: A movement in crises? BMJ, 2014;348(3725)
Grue, Jan. Discourse analysis and disability: Some topics and issues. Discourse & Society 2011;22 (5):532-546.
Haldar, Marit; Engebretsen, Eivind & Album, Dag (2015). Legitimating the illegitimate: How doctors manage their knowledge of the prestige of diseases. Health. ISSN 1363-4593. . doi: 10.1177/1363459315596798
Hesslow G. Do we need a concept of disease. Theor Med 1993; 14, 1-14.
Hofmann B. Complexity of the concept of disease as shown through rival theoretical frameworks. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2001; 22(3): 211-37.
Hofmann B. Disease. In: ten Have H, ed. Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics: Springer International Publishing; 2015:1-8
Hofmann B. Hva er sykdom? Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk, 2014. (229 sider)
Hofmann B. Medicalization and overdiagnosis: different but alike. Medicine, health care, and philosophy. 2016;19:253-264.
Hofmann B. Simplified models of the relationship between health and disease. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2005; 26(5): 355 - 377.
Hofmann B. Suffering: Harm to bodies, minds, and persons. Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine. Berlin: Springer; 2015.
Khushf G. Expanding the horizon of reflection on health and disease. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 1995; 20: 461-473.
Kingma, E. Naturalism about Health and Disease: Adding Nuance for Progress. Journal of Medicine & Philosophy 2014; 39.6: 590-608.
Leslie, Charles. "Medical pluralism in world perspective." Social Science & Medicine. Part B: Medical Anthropology 14.4 (1980): 191-195.
Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2012). Sykehistorienes eksempelbruk, I: Ellen Marie Krefting; Anne Eriksen & Anne Birgitte R?nning (red.), Eksemplets makt. Kj?nn, representasjon og autoritet fra antikken til i dag. Spartacus. ISBN 9788230400890. Kapittel VIII. s 203 – 229
Lock, Margaret, and Patricia Kaufert. "Menopause, local biologies, and cultures of aging." American Journal of Human Biology 13.4 (2001): 494-504.
Marinker, M. Why make people patients? J Med Ethics 1975; 1(2), 81-84.
Mol, Annemarie. "The logic of care." Health and the problem of Patient Choice (2008).
Mol, Annemarie. The body multiple: Ontology in medical practice. Duke University Press, 2002.
Nord E. Disability weights in the Global Burden of Disease 2010: unclear meaning and overstatement of international agreement. Health Policy, 2013; 111(1), 99-104.
Nordby H. The analytic-synthetic distinction and conceptual analysis of basic health concepts. Medicine Health Care and Philosophy 2006; 9: 169–180.
Nordenfelt L. The concepts of health and illness revisited. Med Health Care Philos. 2007;10(1):5-10.
Rabinow, Paul. Artificiality and enlightenment: from sociobiology to biosociality. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2005.
Rose, N. 'Normality and pathology in a biomedical age' SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 2009; 57, SUPPL. 2: 66 - 83.
R?ikk? J. The social concept of disease. Theoretical Medicine 1996;17(4): 353-61. (8 sider)
Ris?r, Mette Bech. "Illness explanations among patients with medically unexplained symptoms: different idioms for different contexts." Health 2009; 13.5: 505-521.
Scheper‐Hughes, Nancy, and Margaret M. Lock. "The mindful body: A prolegomenon to future work in medical anthropology." Medical anthropology quarterly 1987; 1.1: 6-41.
Smith R. In search of “non?disease”. BMJ 2002;324;883-5.
Solbr?kke, K. N., S?iland, H., Lode, K. Gripsrud, B. H. Our Genes, Our Selves: Hereditary breast cancer and biological citizenship in Norway. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 2017; 20(1) 89-103.
Sontag S. Illness as Metaphor. New York: Farrar. Strays and Giroux, 1978. (35 sider)
Tucker, Ian. "Towards the multiple body." Theory & Psychology 16.3 (2006): 433-440.
Tver?mo A et al. En integrert forst?else av subjektive lidelser i klinisk praksis. Tidsskr Nor Legeforen nr. 22, 2014; 134: 2174 – 6
Undeland M, Malterud K. The fibromyalgia diagnosis - hardly helpful for the patients? Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2007; 25: 250-255.
Wakefield JC. The Concept of Mental Disorder. American Psychologist, 1992; 47: 373–388.
Worall J, Worall J. Defining disease: much ado about nothing?' Analecta Husserliana 2001; 72, 33-55.
Additional reading:
Aronowitz RA. Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. and New York, 1998
Conrad P, Barker KK. The Social Construction of Illness: Key Insights and Policy Implications. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 2010;51(1 suppl):S67-S79.
Eriksen TE, Kerry R, Mumford S, et al. At the borders of medical reasoning: aetiological and ontological challenges of medically unexplained symptoms. Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM 2013;8:11
Fabrega H, Jr. How psychiatric conditions were made. Psychiatry. 2007;70(2):130-153.
Greene J. Prescribing by numbers. Drugs and the definition of disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Horwitz AV. Creating Mental Illness, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Horwitz, A. V. and J.C. Wakefield. The Loss of Sadness, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Kahn J. Race in a bottle: The story of BiDil and racialized medicine in a post-genomic age: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Katz, S. Disiplining old age. The formation og gerontological knowledge. University Press of Virginia, 1996.
Kingma, E. 2007. What is it to be healthy? Analysis 67:128–33.
Lindstr?m J A. Why Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Is Not a True Medical Syndrome. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry.14; 2012.1; 61-73.
Lock M. The Alzheimer conundrum: Entanglements of dementia and aging. Princeton University Press, 2013.
Lupton D. The imperative of health: Public health and the regulated body. Vol 90: Taylor & Francis; 1995.
Magelssen, M., Nortvedt, P., & Solbakk, J. H. (2016). Rationing at the bedside: Immoral or unavoidable? Clinical Ethics, 11(4), 112-121. doi:10.1177/1477750916657664
Martin CM, Peterson C. The social construction of chronicity--a key to understanding chronic care transformations. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. 2009;15(3):578-585.
Moynihan R. Medicalization. A new deal on disease definition. Bmj 2011;342:d2548
Mukherjee S. The emperor of all maladies. A biography of cancer. New York: Scribner, 2011.
Mukherjee S. The gene: An intimate history: Simon and Schuster, 2016.
Napier AD, Ancarno C, Butler B, et al. Culture and health. The Lancet. 2014;384(9954):1607-1639.
Nordenfelt, L.On the Nature of Health: An Action-Theoretic Perspective, 2nd edition, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995.
Rasmussen EB. Balancing medical accuracy and diagnostic consequences: diagnosing medically unexplained symptoms in primary care. Sociology of health & illness 2017 doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12581
Reznek, L. The Nature of Disease, New York: Routledge, 1987.
Shilling C. Culture, the ‘sick role’ and the consumption of health. British Journal of Sociology 2002; 53: 621–638
Shim JK. Heart-sick: The politics of risk, inequality, and heart disease: NYU Press 2014.
Thagard. P.How Scientists Explain Disease, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Tikkinen KA, Leinonen JS, Guyatt GH, et al. What is a disease? Perspectives of the public, health professionals and legislators. BMJ Open 2012;2(6).
Toombs SK. The Temporality of Illness: Four Levels of Experience. Theor Med 11, no. 3 (1990): 227-41.
Vogt H, Hofmann B, Getz L. The new holism: P4 systems medicine and the medicalization of health and life itself. Med Health Care Philos. 2016;19(2):307-23.
Wyller, V. B. (2014). Give to the Doctor What Is Due to the Doctor!: Why “Fair Rationing at the Bedside” Is Impossible: Oxford University Press.