Health matters : a sociology of illness, prevention and care
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Health matters : a sociology of illness, prevention and care
Open University Press, 1998
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- : pbk
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: pbk ISBN 9780335202607
Description
Sickness and death are unavoidable facts of life. However, the likelihood of becoming ill or being disabled, and the experience and circumstances of dying, are not haphazard. Social relations shape health status, illness experience, responses to the sick and definitions of care.
Health Matters presents contemporary perspectives and empirical evidence in the sociology of health, focusing on inequalities in health and illness, healthcare and prevention. Chapters cover ethnicity and health, perspectives on the body, the study of health and the emotions, postmodernism and health, psychiatric disability and community-based care, health and the discourse of weight control, the health consumer's perspective, health status in developing economies, healthcare and the popular media, medical practice and medical authority, and inequalities in healthcare in late modern societies.
The collection offers a 'state of the art' overview of recent scholarship in the sociology of health, and includes contributions from the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. It will be of interest to undergraduates in sociology, particularly those in the sociology of health, students in social work, nursing and public health, as well as postgraduates and established researchers.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part one: Sociology matters
Introduction
Postmodernism and 'health'
Inequalities in late-modern health care
Consumer reconstructions of medical knowledge in Australia
Emotions, equity and health
Evolutionary medicine
Part two: Experience matters
Introduction
Health matters in developing economies
Ethnicity, health and health care in Britain
Children's images of health
Health and the discourse of weight control
Containing the body
A good enough death?
Part three: Care matters
Introduction
Medicine and health care in popular media
Trust and medical authority
Uncertainty in medical decision-making
Looking after patients and doctors
Psychiatric disability and community based care
Nurses and the ideal of patient participation
Health and the dying person
Part four: Prevention matters
Introduction
Home ownership and health in the United Kingdom
Alcohol in indigenous Australian communities
AIDS, women and the body politic
A well-shaped man
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: hbk ISBN 9780335202614
Description
This text presents late-1990s perspectives and empirical evidence in the sociology of health, focusing upon inequalities in health and illness, healthcare and prevention. Chapters cover ethnicity and health; perspectives on the body; the study of health and the emotions; postmodernism and health; psychiatric disability and community-based care; health and the discourse of weight control; the health consumers perspective; health status in developing economies; healthcare and the popular media; medical practice and medical authority; and inequalities in healthcare in late modern societies. Contributions come from the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Sociology matters: introduction
- postmodernism and "health"
- inequalities in late-modern health care
- consumer reconstructions of medical knowledge in Australia
- emotions, equity and health
- evolutionary medicine. Part 2 Experience matters: introduction
- health matters in developing economies
- ethnicity, health and health care in Britain
- children's images of health
- health and the discourse of weight control
- containing the body
- a good enough death?. Part 3 Care matters: introduction
- medicine and health care in popular media
- trust and medical authority
- uncertainty in medical decision-making
- looking after patients and doctors
- psychiatric disability and community based care
- nurses and the ideal of patient participation
- health and the dying person. Part 4 Prevention matters: introduction
- home ownership and health in the United Kingdom
- alcohol in indigenous Australian communities
- AIDS, women and the body politic
- a well-shaped man.
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