The sociology of health and illness : a reader /
The sociology of health and illness : a reader /
edited by Michael Bury and Jonathan Gabe.
- xvii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Routledge student readers .
- Routledge student readers. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Health beliefs and knowledge -- Inequalities and patterning of health and illness -- Professional and patient interaction -- Chronic illness and disability -- Evaluation and politics of health care -- -- General Introduction / The Individual, the Way of Life and the Genesis of Illness / Why Do the Victims Blame Themselves? / Lay Epidemiology and the Prevention Paradox: The Implications of Coronary Candidacy for Health Education / "Lifestyle" and its Social Meaning / Popular Epidemiology, Toxic Waste and Social Movements / Lay Constructions of Genetic Risk / From Social Integration to Health: Durkheim in the New Millennium / The Epidemiological Transition: From Material Scarcity to Social Disadvantage? / Explaining Health Inequalities: Beyond Black and Barker / Health Inequalities in the Life Course Perspective / Genetic, Cultural or Socio-Economic Vulnerability? Explaining Ethnic Inequalities in Health / Gender Differences in Health: Are Things Really as Simple as they Seem? / The Social Organization of Illness / Working on the Front-Line: Risk Culture and Nursing in the New NHS / Consumerism, Reflexivity and the Medical Encounter / Going Private: Ceremonial Forms in a Medical Oncology Clinic / A New Medical Pluralism? / Decision Making in the Physician-Patient Encounter: Revisiting the Shared Treatment Decision-Making Model / The Genesis of Chronic Illness: Narrative Reconstruction / Medical Sociology, Chronic Illness and the Body / Defining and Researching Disability: Challenges and Responses / Defining Impairment and Disability: Issues at Stake / From Biographical Disruption to Biographical Reinforcement: The Case of HIV-Positive Men / When Bodies Need Voices / Continuity and Change in the British National Health Service / The Politics of Evidence-Based Medicine in the United Kingdom / A Sociological Perspective on Rationing: Power, Rhetoric and Situated Practices / Qualitative Methods for Assessing Health Care / Implementing Evidence-Based Medicine in General Practice: Audit and Qualitative Study of Anti-Thrombotic Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation / Random Allocation or Allocation at Random? Patients' Perspectives of Participation in a Randomised Controlled Trial / Michael Bury and Jonathan Gabe -- Claudine Herzlich -- Mildred Blaxter -- Charlie Davison, George Davey Smith and Stephen Frankel -- Michael Calnan -- Phil Brown -- Evelyn Parsons and Paul Atkinson -- Lisa F. Berkman, Thomas Glass, Ian Brissette and Teresa E. Seeman -- Richard G. Wilkinson -- Denny Vagero and Raymond Illsley -- M. E. J. Wadsworth -- James Y. Nazroo -- Sally Macintyre, Kate Hunt and Helen Sweeting -- Eliot Freidson -- Ellen Annadale -- Deborah Lupton -- David Silverman -- Sarah Cant and Ursula Sharma -- Cathy Charles, Amiram Gafni and Tim Whelan -- Gareth Williams -- Michael P. Kelly and David Field -- Michael Bury -- Mike Oliver -- Daniele Carricaburu and Janine Pierret -- Arthur Frank -- Jonathan Gabe -- Stephen Harrison -- Donald W. Light and David Hughes -- Ray Fitzpatrick and Mary Boulton -- Alistair Howitt and David Armstrong -- Katie Featherstone and Jenny L. Donovan. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
This collection of both classic writings and more recent articles in the sociology of health and illness includes a number of different perspectives on health and illness.
0415257557 9780415257558 0415257565 9780415257565
2003006786
Social medicine.
RA418 / .S67384 2004
306.461
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Health beliefs and knowledge -- Inequalities and patterning of health and illness -- Professional and patient interaction -- Chronic illness and disability -- Evaluation and politics of health care -- -- General Introduction / The Individual, the Way of Life and the Genesis of Illness / Why Do the Victims Blame Themselves? / Lay Epidemiology and the Prevention Paradox: The Implications of Coronary Candidacy for Health Education / "Lifestyle" and its Social Meaning / Popular Epidemiology, Toxic Waste and Social Movements / Lay Constructions of Genetic Risk / From Social Integration to Health: Durkheim in the New Millennium / The Epidemiological Transition: From Material Scarcity to Social Disadvantage? / Explaining Health Inequalities: Beyond Black and Barker / Health Inequalities in the Life Course Perspective / Genetic, Cultural or Socio-Economic Vulnerability? Explaining Ethnic Inequalities in Health / Gender Differences in Health: Are Things Really as Simple as they Seem? / The Social Organization of Illness / Working on the Front-Line: Risk Culture and Nursing in the New NHS / Consumerism, Reflexivity and the Medical Encounter / Going Private: Ceremonial Forms in a Medical Oncology Clinic / A New Medical Pluralism? / Decision Making in the Physician-Patient Encounter: Revisiting the Shared Treatment Decision-Making Model / The Genesis of Chronic Illness: Narrative Reconstruction / Medical Sociology, Chronic Illness and the Body / Defining and Researching Disability: Challenges and Responses / Defining Impairment and Disability: Issues at Stake / From Biographical Disruption to Biographical Reinforcement: The Case of HIV-Positive Men / When Bodies Need Voices / Continuity and Change in the British National Health Service / The Politics of Evidence-Based Medicine in the United Kingdom / A Sociological Perspective on Rationing: Power, Rhetoric and Situated Practices / Qualitative Methods for Assessing Health Care / Implementing Evidence-Based Medicine in General Practice: Audit and Qualitative Study of Anti-Thrombotic Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation / Random Allocation or Allocation at Random? Patients' Perspectives of Participation in a Randomised Controlled Trial / Michael Bury and Jonathan Gabe -- Claudine Herzlich -- Mildred Blaxter -- Charlie Davison, George Davey Smith and Stephen Frankel -- Michael Calnan -- Phil Brown -- Evelyn Parsons and Paul Atkinson -- Lisa F. Berkman, Thomas Glass, Ian Brissette and Teresa E. Seeman -- Richard G. Wilkinson -- Denny Vagero and Raymond Illsley -- M. E. J. Wadsworth -- James Y. Nazroo -- Sally Macintyre, Kate Hunt and Helen Sweeting -- Eliot Freidson -- Ellen Annadale -- Deborah Lupton -- David Silverman -- Sarah Cant and Ursula Sharma -- Cathy Charles, Amiram Gafni and Tim Whelan -- Gareth Williams -- Michael P. Kelly and David Field -- Michael Bury -- Mike Oliver -- Daniele Carricaburu and Janine Pierret -- Arthur Frank -- Jonathan Gabe -- Stephen Harrison -- Donald W. Light and David Hughes -- Ray Fitzpatrick and Mary Boulton -- Alistair Howitt and David Armstrong -- Katie Featherstone and Jenny L. Donovan. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
This collection of both classic writings and more recent articles in the sociology of health and illness includes a number of different perspectives on health and illness.
0415257557 9780415257558 0415257565 9780415257565
2003006786
Social medicine.
RA418 / .S67384 2004
306.461