Second opinion : an introduction to health sociology /

Second opinion : an introduction to health sociology / 2nd opinion edited by John Germov. - 4th ed. - xxvi, 564 p. : ill.

Previous ed.: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Health Sociology and The Social Model of Health -- Imagining Health Problems as Social Issues / Theorising Health: Major Theoretical Perspectives in Health Sociology / Researching Health: Methodological Traditions and Innovations / The Social Production and Distribution of Health and Illness -- Global Public Health / Class, Health Inequality, and Social Justice / Workplace Health / Gender and Health / Indigenous Health: The Perpetuation of Inequality / Ethnicity, Health, and Multiculturalism / Rural Health / The Social Construction of Health and Illness -- The Social Appetite: A Sociology of Food and Nutrition / The Medicalisation of Deviance / Mental Illness: Understandings, Experience and Service Provision / The Illness Experience: Lay Perspectives, Disability and Chronic Illness / Ageing, Health and the Demographic Revolution / The Human Genome Project: A Sociology of Medical Technology / Media and Health / The Social Organisation of Health Care: Professions, Politics, and Policies -- Power, Politics and Health Care / Challenges to Medical Dominance / Sociology of Nursing / The Sociology of Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Jostling for Position: A Sociology of Allied Health / A Sociology of Health Promotion / Community Health Services in Australia / John Germov -- John Germov -- Douglas Ezzy -- John Germov -- John Germov -- Toni Schofield -- Dorothy Broom -- Dennis Gray and Sherry Saggers -- Roberta Julian -- Clarissa Hughes -- Lauren Williams and John Germov -- Sharyn L. Roach Anleu -- Pauline Savy and Anne-Maree Sawyer -- Daphne Habibis -- Marilyn Poole -- Evan Willis -- John Germov -- Helen Belcher -- John Germov -- Helen Keleher -- Alex Broom -- Lauren Williams -- John Germov and Katy Richmond -- Fran Baum. Part 1. 1. 2. 3. Part 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Part 3. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Part 4. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.

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