Annandale, Ellen.

The sociology of health and medicine : a critical introduction / Ellen Annandale. - xi, 334 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Social Theory and the Sociology of Health and Illness -- The Theoretical Origins and Development of the Sociology of Health and Illness -- Shattering the Orthodoxy? Foucault, Postmodernism and the Sociology of the Body -- The Feminist Challenge -- Contemporary Health Inequalities -- Class Structure, Inequalities and Health -- Gender Inequalities and Health Status -- 'Race', Ethnicity and Health Status -- Accomplishing Health and Health Care -- Health Care in the 1990s and Beyond -- Professional Powers: The Formal Health-Care Division of Labour in Transition -- The Experience of Illness and Health Care in Contemporary Society -- Notes -- References -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9.

0745613586 (pbk.) 0745613578 (hardcover)

97045218


Social medicine--United States
Medical care--United States

RA418.3.U6 / A55 1998

306.461