Aspects of illness / Robert Dingwall.
Material type: TextPublisher: Aldershot, England : Ashgate, 2001Edition: Second editionDescription: xviii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0754616703
- 9780754616702
- 306.461
- RA
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 306.461 DIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A256138B |
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306.461 COC Social causes of health and disease / | 306.461 COC Social causes of health and disease / | 306.461 CUL A Cultural History of the Human Body / | 306.461 DIN Aspects of illness / | 306.461 FAR Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / | 306.461 FOX Beyond health : postmodernism and embodiment / | 306.461 FRA The wounded storyteller : body, illness, and ethics / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Illness Behaviour: The Failure of Positivism -- 2. Illness as Social Action -- 3. Accounts of Illness -- 4. Illness and Everyday Life -- 5. Illness and Sufferers -- 6. The Way Forward?
"The study of social aspects of illness has been held back by the lack of an adequate sociology of illness and reliance on a biology of illness borrowed uncritically from medical investigators. This book's review of the major traditions of sociological work on illness and its behavioural consequences pioneered the attempt to forge an alternative way of understanding the phenomenon of illness. It was strongly influenced by contemporary developments in American sociology and anthropology that have still not been widely taken up in the UK, although they represent important contributions to the search for a general analytic approach to the study of illness as a social matter. The book comes with a new introduction reflecting on its arguments, their continuing relevance and the author's further thoughts."--BOOK JACKET.
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