TY - CHAP
T1 - Health Social Movements
T2 - Advancing Traditional Medical Sociology Concepts
AU - Brown, Phil
AU - Morello-Frosch, Rachel
AU - Zavestoski, Stephen
AU - Senier, Laura
AU - Altman, Rebecca Gasior
AU - Hoover, Elizabeth
AU - McCormick, Sabrina
AU - Mayer, Brian
AU - Adams, Crystal
N1 - Funding Information:
The EBCM exemplifies EHMs as a type of HSM in that it presses the medical and scientific establishments as well as the broader breast cancer movement to focus on environmental causes. This has fundamentally changed how breast cancer is researched and publicly perceived. For example, EBCM organizations like Breast Cancer Action have consistently challenged the corporate control of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As part of its “think before you pink” campaign, Breast Cancer Action advocates sought to shift revenues raised from the US Postal Service’s official breast cancer stamp from the National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense medical research program (which conducts mostly treatment research) to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers (which funds research on breast cancer etiology). EBCM activists work with many other types of groups including EHMs such as minority women’s cancer groups and HSMs such as toxics-use-reduction groups (McCormick et al. 2003). Examining alliances and collaborations among different types of HSMs opens up a range of questions about coalition formation that would be useful not only to medical sociologists but also to social movements researchers.
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Over the last decade, a growing number of social scientists have turned their attention to the study of activism around health issues. Health social movements (HSMs) have pressed the institution of medicine to change in dramatic ways, embracing new modes of healthcare delivery and organization. Health activists have also pushed medicine to evolve by connecting their health concerns to other substantive issues such as social and environmental justice, poverty, and occupational or environmentally induced diseases. HSMs therefore serve as an important bridge, connecting the institution of medicine to other social institutions. In similar fashion, the study of HSMs has motivated medical sociology to develop new tools and theoretical perspectives to understand these alterations in the medical landscape. Medical sociologists stand to learn a great deal about the institution of medicine by observing it as it comes into conflict with patients and activists around issues of health care delivery, science and policy, and regulatory action. This broad sweep of interests must be systematized, which is our project here.
AB - Over the last decade, a growing number of social scientists have turned their attention to the study of activism around health issues. Health social movements (HSMs) have pressed the institution of medicine to change in dramatic ways, embracing new modes of healthcare delivery and organization. Health activists have also pushed medicine to evolve by connecting their health concerns to other substantive issues such as social and environmental justice, poverty, and occupational or environmentally induced diseases. HSMs therefore serve as an important bridge, connecting the institution of medicine to other social institutions. In similar fashion, the study of HSMs has motivated medical sociology to develop new tools and theoretical perspectives to understand these alterations in the medical landscape. Medical sociologists stand to learn a great deal about the institution of medicine by observing it as it comes into conflict with patients and activists around issues of health care delivery, science and policy, and regulatory action. This broad sweep of interests must be systematized, which is our project here.
KW - Black Panther Party
KW - Breast Cancer
KW - Environmental Justice
KW - Illness Experience
KW - Social Movement
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85104320797
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85104320797#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4419-7261-3_7
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4419-7261-3_7
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85104320797
T3 - Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
SP - 117
EP - 137
BT - Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
ER -