Agents of health and illness
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Agents of health and illness
(Research in the sociology of health care : a research annual, v. 11)
JAI Press, c1994
Available at 22 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume discusses such topics as conceptualizing illness and disability, the implications for medical sociology of the minority group model of disability, the views of medicine and mothers on controlling the population, and resolving uncertainty about the safety of DES in menopause.
Table of Contents
- Conceptualizing illness and disability - the minority group model of disability - implciations for medical sociology, Harlan Hahn
- controlling the population - views of medicine and mothers, Kitty S. Felker
- social policy, illness and disability
- from local to global - resolving uncertainty about the safety of DES in menopause, Susan E. Bell
- the health insurance work disincentive for persons with disabilities, Thomas J. Burns et al
- effects of policy experiments in long term care - some empirical findings from the Netherlands, Jan Coolen
- homeless men and HIV - barriers to adopting safer practices, Stephanie Wilson Hartwell
- the experience of illness and disability
- gender differences and adjustment to cancer, Betsy L. Fife
- life quality as a function of ageing with a chronic illness - differential assessment by older blacks and older whites, Nancy G. Kutner and Donna Brogan
- employment among young persons with spinal cord injury - work tracjectories, resources and barriers, Karen Yoshida
- caring for persons with illnesses and disabilities - mothers of children with disabilities and the construction of expertise, Parnel Wickham-Searl
- transitions in caregiving status - factors affecting participation over time, Mark Tausig.
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