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Sociology of health in New Zealand / Kevin Dew & Allison Kirkman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: South Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press, 2002Description: xii, 291 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195584546
  • 9780195584547
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4610993 22
LOC classification:
  • RA418.3.N45 D49 2002
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Inequalities in Health -- 3. Stigma and Health -- 4. Sexuality and Sexual Behaviour -- 5. The Institutions of Healthcare -- 6. Medicalisation and Commercialisation -- 7. Death and Dying -- 8. Conflict in Health -- 9. Consumers -- 10. Mental Health and Social Control -- 11. Health and the Media -- 12. Public Health and Health Promotion -- 13. Technology and Health -- 14. Conclusion.
Summary: "This book firmly grounds sociological analysis of health in the New Zealand experience, and takes in a wide range of contemporary themes in sociology of health and medicine. The book is an easily readable textbook on the sociology of health."--Publisher description.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.4610993 DEW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A278463B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.4610993 DEW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A278458B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.4610993 DEW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A278464B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.4610993 DEW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Lost A278548B
Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 306.4610993 DEW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A495634B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-257) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Inequalities in Health -- 3. Stigma and Health -- 4. Sexuality and Sexual Behaviour -- 5. The Institutions of Healthcare -- 6. Medicalisation and Commercialisation -- 7. Death and Dying -- 8. Conflict in Health -- 9. Consumers -- 10. Mental Health and Social Control -- 11. Health and the Media -- 12. Public Health and Health Promotion -- 13. Technology and Health -- 14. Conclusion.

"This book firmly grounds sociological analysis of health in the New Zealand experience, and takes in a wide range of contemporary themes in sociology of health and medicine. The book is an easily readable textbook on the sociology of health."--Publisher description.

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