TY - BOOK AU - Germov,John TI - Second opinion: an introduction to health sociology SN - 9780195562811 (pbk) AV - RA418.3 U1 - 306.4610994 22 PY - 2009/// CY - South Melbourne, Vic., Australia, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Social medicine KW - Australia KW - Health KW - Social aspects KW - Social Medicine N1 - Previous ed.: 2005; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1; Health Sociology and The Social Model of Health --; 1; Imagining Health Problems as Social Issues; John Germov --; 2; Theorising Health: Major Theoretical Perspectives in Health Sociology; John Germov --; 3; Researching Health: Methodological Traditions and Innovations; Douglas Ezzy --; Part 2; The Social Production and Distribution of Health and Illness --; 4; Global Public Health; John Germov --; 5; Class, Health Inequality, and Social Justice; John Germov --; 6; Workplace Health; Toni Schofield --; 7; Gender and Health; Dorothy Broom --; 8; Indigenous Health: The Perpetuation of Inequality; Dennis Gray and Sherry Saggers --; 9; Ethnicity, Health, and Multiculturalism; Roberta Julian --; 10; Rural Health; Clarissa Hughes --; Part 3; The Social Construction of Health and Illness --; 11; The Social Appetite: A Sociology of Food and Nutrition; Lauren Williams and John Germov --; 12; The Medicalisation of Deviance; Sharyn L. Roach Anleu --; 13; Mental Illness: Understandings, Experience and Service Provision; Pauline Savy and Anne-Maree Sawyer --; 14; The Illness Experience: Lay Perspectives, Disability and Chronic Illness; Daphne Habibis --; 15; Ageing, Health and the Demographic Revolution; Marilyn Poole --; 16; The Human Genome Project: A Sociology of Medical Technology; Evan Willis --; 17; Media and Health; John Germov --; Part 4; The Social Organisation of Health Care: Professions, Politics, and Policies --; 18; Power, Politics and Health Care; Helen Belcher --; 19; Challenges to Medical Dominance; John Germov --; 20; Sociology of Nursing; Helen Keleher --; 21; The Sociology of Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Alex Broom --; 22; Jostling for Position: A Sociology of Allied Health; Lauren Williams --; 23; A Sociology of Health Promotion; John Germov and Katy Richmond --; 24; Community Health Services in Australia; Fran Baum ER -