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Key concepts in medical sociology / Jonathan Gabe, Mike Bury, and Mary Ann Elston.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SAGE key conceptsPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2004Description: xviii, 256 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0761974423
  • 9780761974420
  • 0761974415
  • 9780761974413
Other title:
  • Medical sociology [Spine title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 22
LOC classification:
  • RA418 .G27 2004
Contents:
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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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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