Key concepts in medical sociology / Jonathan Gabe, Mike Bury, and Mary Ann Elston.
Material type: TextSeries: SAGE key conceptsPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2004Description: xviii, 256 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0761974423
- 9780761974420
- 0761974415
- 9780761974413
- Medical sociology [Spine title]
- 306.461 22
- RA418 .G27 2004
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Spine title: Medical sociology.
Includes bibliographical references.
Pt. 1. Social patterning of health -- Social class -- Gender -- Ethnicity -- Age -- Place -- Health and development -- Material and cultural factors -- Psycho-social factors -- Social support -- Life events -- Lifecourse -- Pt. 2. Experience of illness -- Medicalization -- Illness behaviour -- Stigma -- Embodiment -- Chronic illness and disability -- Illness narratives -- Risk -- The sick role -- Practitioner-client relationships -- Uncertainty -- Compliance and concordance -- Quality of life -- Dying trajectories -- Pt. 3. Health, knowledge and practice -- Medical model -- Social constructionism -- Lay knowledge -- Reproduction -- Medical technologies -- Geneticization -- Surveillance and health promotion -- Pt. 4. Health work and the division of labour -- Professions and professionalization -- Professional socialization -- Medical autonomy and medical dominance -- Decline of medical autonomy -- Medical pluralism -- Negotiated order -- Emotional labour -- Informal care -- Pt. 5. Health care organization and policy -- Hospitals and health care organizations -- Privatization -- Managerialism -- Consumerism -- Social movements and health -- Social problems and health -- The new public health -- Medicines regulation -- Citizenship and health -- Evaluation -- Malpractice.
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