Second opinion : an introduction to health sociology / edited by John Germov.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Health sociology and the social model of health -- 1. Imagining Health Problems as Social Issues -- 2. Theorising Health Major Theoretical Perspectives in Health Sociology -- 3. Well-being and Wellness -- Part 2: The social production and distribution of health and illness --g4. Global Public Health -- 5. The Class Origins of Health Inequality -- 6. Workplace Health -- 7. Gendered Health -- 8. Indigenous Health The Slow Road to Equity -- 9. Ethnicity, Health, and Multiculturalism -- 10. Rural Health -- 11. Young People's Health -- Part 3: The social construction of health and illness -- 12. The Social Determinants of Obesity -- 13. The Medicalisation of Deviance -- 14. Mental Illness Understandings, Experience, and Service Provision -- 15. The Illness Experience Lay Perspectives, Disability, and Chronic Illness -- 16. Drug Use and Abuse in Australia Social Origins, Impacts, and Responses -- 17. Ageing, Health, and the Demographic Revolution -- 18. Health and Medical Technology -- 19. Media and Health Moral Panics, Miracles, and Medicalisation -- Part 4: the social organisation of health care: professions, politics, and policies -- 20. Power, Politics, and Health Care -- 21. Challenges to Medical Dominance -- 22. The Sociology of Nursing -- 23. The Sociology of Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- 24. The Sociology of Allied Health -- 25. A Sociology of Health Promotion.