基本説明
A comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the sociology of health.
Full Description
A comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the sociology of health. The Sociology of Healthcare will stimulate debate, reflexive practice and critical thinking in applied sociology and is aimed at the teaching and learning needs of both lecturers and students.
Contents
Dedication.- Acknowledgements.- Thinking Sociologically about Health and Introduction; The Political Economy of Health and Health Care; Ellen Annandale; The Medicalisation of Reproduction; Pamela Abbott, Claire Wallace and Melissa Tyler; The Social Role of Medicine; David Armstrong; The Sociological Construction of Medicine; Paul Atkinson; The Sociological Introduction; Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches; Keith F. Punch; Historical Data for Health Inequalities;Sara Mallinson, Jennie Popay, Eva Elliot, Sharon Bennett, Lisa Bostock, Anthony Gatrell, Carol Thomas and Gareth Williams; Practice-based Evidence; Nick J. Fox; 'Traditional' and 'Emancipatory' Research; Beth Humphries; Women Respondents in Health Research; Helen Roberts; Ethics and Ethics Committees; Carole Truman.- PART Victim Blaming; Robert Crawford; The Determinants of Geographical Inequalities in Health; Heather Joshi, Richard D. Wiggins, Mel Bartley, Richard Mitchell, Simon Gleave and Kevin Lynch; Children Reflecting on Health; Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Sarah Cunningham-Burley and John Davis; Gender and Women's Health; Lesley Doyal; Measuring and Understanding Ethnic Inequalities in Health; Mel Bartley.- PART IV: BODIES, MINDS AND EMOTIONS Introduction; The Body, Medicine and Death; Deborah Lupton; 'Enhancing' the Body; Peter Conrad and Heather T. Jacobson; Humour and Illness; Alison Chapple and Sue Ziebland; Anorexia as Disability; Stephanie Tierney; 'Dirty Work'; Ian Shaw; Emotion Work in Midwifery; Billie Hunter.- PART V: POWER, PROFESSIONS AND PRACTICE Introduction; The Characteristics of a Profession; Eliot Friedson; The Professionalisation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Merrijoy Kelner, Beverly Wellman, Heather Boon and Sandy Welsh; The Feminisation of Dentistry; Tracey L. Adams; Occupational Boundaries in the Operating Theatre; Stephen Timmons and Judith Tanner; Choosing to be Childfree; Annily Campbell; The Internet and the Doctor-Patient Relationship; Alex Broom.
