The sociology of health and illness : a reader / edited by Michael Bury and Jonathan Gabe.

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

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.

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