Author Names

• Durkheim: Individual and societal factors in suicide
• Wong and Kohler: Role of Social Capital in Public Health Response
• John Snow Project: Economic influences, political influences, and their effect on public health and COVID
• Homan: Investigates the impact of structural sexism on health outcomes, highlighting differences in physical health conditions among men and women across various structural levels.
• Conrad: Social Construction of Illness
• Is Being Fat Bad for You: Fear-mongering about obesity can lead to harmful behaviors and policies that do not necessarily improve health outcomes but rather perpetuate stigma and discrimination.
• Jutel: Factors contributing to the expansion of medicalization, including biotechnology, consumerism, managed care, and pharmaceutical interests.
• Hansen: poverty has increasingly been treated as a medical issue
• Walker: neurological variations like autism are natural, healthy forms of human diversity. This paradigm challenges the idea that there is a normal brain configuration and treats neurological differences as variations rather than defects (Neurodiversity Paradigm).
• Schüll: wearable technology is biopower
• Zhang: abortion in denmark because of down syndrome
• Livne: End of life care values
• Playing God: Aiming to save the most lives/years of life (utilitarianism)vs. individual's medical needs or contributions to society.
• Best: How institutions, interest groups, and ideologies shape the health care system and the policies therein.
• Kavanagh: Democratic vs. Authoritarian control during a pandemic
• Greenough: Coercion and small pox
• Link and Phelan: Fundamental Causes
• Holmes: Medical and clinical gaze
• Watters: anorexia in Hong Kong
• Eyal: autism and looping
• Starr: doctors have professional sovereignty
• Watkins-Hayes: Debates the extent to which individual efforts can overcome structural barriers
• Fullilove: The concept of race is argued to be a social and visual construct, not grounded in any substantial biological or genetic reality.
• Reich: Individual rights to refuse vaccines and the implications of these choices on public health
• Shim: Describes the health care system as a field where cultural health capital is exchanged, impacting the dynamics of treatment and the perpetuation of social inequalities.
• Metzl: schizophrenia became increasingly associated with African American men, particularly during the civil rights movement, reflecting broader racial tensions and biases.
• Lara-Millan: The use of triage systems to manage patient flow, which often results in prioritizing certain patients over others based on subjective assessments influenced by systemic biases.
• Sung: biopower
• Trotter: nurse practitioners
• Rosenthal: Tuition waivers should be conditional, offered only to those students who work in high-need areas or in poorly compensated specialties.
• Brown: healthcare practices reflect economic strategies and social policies, especially concerning the vulnerable populations like the elderly .
• Quadango: Health care systems are not rigid but are influenced by their historical and cultural contexts.
• Epstein: challenging traditional scientific authority and questioning who has the right to contribute to scientific knowledge.