Gabe, Jonathan, <br/><br/>
Key concepts in medical sociology / 
 Medical sociology 
Jonathan Gabe, Mike Bury, and Mary Ann Elston. 
 - xviii, 256 pages ;  21 cm. 
 - SAGE key concepts .
 - SAGE key concepts. .
<br/><br/> Spine title: Medical sociology. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> 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 --  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 --  Health, knowledge and practice --  Medical model --  Social constructionism --  Lay knowledge --  Reproduction --  Medical technologies --  Geneticization --  Surveillance and health promotion --  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 --  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.  Pt. 1.  Pt. 2.  Pt. 3.  Pt. 4.  Pt. 5. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0761974423 9780761974420 0761974415 9780761974413 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003112277 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social medicine.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA418  / .G27 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.461