The sociology of medicine
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The sociology of medicine
（The international library of critical writings in sociology, 4）（An Elgar reference collection）
E. Elgar Pub., c1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The Sociology of Medicine is a collection of essays and research findings representing the work of medical sociologists in several different countries which focus on current ideas, concepts and issues in medical sociology. The selections provide a contemporary overview of the field in the following areas: sociological theory and health, social factors and disease, social demography, social stress, health and illness behaviour, alternative forms of medicine, health professions and occupations, hospitals, and health care delivery and social change.Although many of the papers are written by medical sociologists in Great Britain and North America, the work of their counterparts in Germany, France, Singapore and Japan is also included. The articles provide both an overview and international focus on the relationship between health and society.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Sociological theory and health: the sociological relevance of chronic illness, Uta Gerhardt
- Max Weber, formal rationality and health lifestyles, William C. Cockerham et al
- a critical theory of medical discourse - ideology, social control and the processing of social context in medical encounters, Howard Waitzkin
- ageing, status politics and sociological theory, Bryan S. Turner. Part 2 Social factors and disease: socioeconomic status and health - how education, income and occupation contribute to risk facts for cardiovascular disease, Marilyn A. Winkleby et al
- acculturation and symptoms - a comparative study of reported health symptoms in three Samoan communities, Joel M. Hanna and Maureen H. Fitzgerald
- depression among the homeless, Mark La Gory et al
- uncertainty and the lives of persons with AIDS, Rose Weitz
- migrant labour and sexually transmitted disease, AIDS in Africa, Charles W. Hunt
- HIV transmission through social and geographical networks in Uganda, Christine Obbo. Part 3 Social demography: the patterning of health by social position in contemporary Britain - directions for sociological research, Sally Macintyre
- chronic illness over the life course - class inequalities among men and women in Britain, Sara Arber
- the effects of women's employment - personal control and sex differences in mental health, Sarah Rosenfield. Part 4 Social stress: the sociological study of stress, Leonard I. Pearlin
- low status control, high effort at work and ischaemic heart disease - prospective evidence from blue-collar men, Johannes Siegrist et al. Part 5 Health behaviour: the image of health - variations in perception by social class in a French population, A. d'Houtaud and Mark G. Field
- social stratification and health lifestyles in two systems of health care delivery - a comparison of the United States and West Germany, Cockerham, William C. et al
- fitness and the postmodern self, Barry Glassner. Part 6 Illness behaviour: reshaping of self - a pendular reconstruction of self and identity among adults with traumatic spinal cord injury, Karen K. Yoshida
- life mirrors work mirrors text mirrors life..., Marianne A. Paget
- self-care - Japan and the US compared, Marie R. Haug et al. Part 7 Alternative medicine. Part 8 Health professions and occupations. Part 9 Hospitals. Part 10 Health care delivery and social change. (Part contents)
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