The sociology of health and illness / Sarah Nettleton.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Polity, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Third editionDescription: xii, 292 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 074564600X
- 9780745646008
- 0745646018
- 9780745646015
- 306.461 23
- RA418 .N48 2013
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Previous edition: 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to first edition -- Preface to second edition -- Preface to third edition -- 1. Introduction: the changing domains of the sociology of health and illness -- 2. The social construction of medical knowledge -- 3. Lay health beliefs, lifestyles and risk -- 4. The experience of chronic illness and disability -- 5. The sociology of the body -- 6. The sociology of lay-professional interactions -- 7. Social inequalities and health status -- 8. Late modernism and the changing social relations of formal health care work -- 9. The sociology of innovative health technology -- 10. Sociological analyses of developments in UK health policy: a new paradigm for health care? -- Bibliography -- Index.
"Sarah Nettleton’s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the field. Building on these strengths, the third edition integrates fresh insights from the current literature with the core tenets of traditional medical sociology, providing students with a thorough grounding in the sociology of health and illness. The text covers a diversity of topics and draws on a wide range of analytic approaches, spanning issues such as the social construction of medical knowledge, the analysis of lay health beliefs, concepts of lifestyles and risk, the experience of illness and the sociology of the body. It also explores matters which are central to health policy, such as professional-patient relationships, health inequalities and the changing nature of health care work. Each chapter in the book has been revised and updated, with substantial new material in particular on the sociology of diagnosis, body work, and a whole new chapter on the sociology of health technology." --Publisher's website.
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