Health and social change : a critical theory
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Health and social change : a critical theory
（Issues in society / edited by Tim May）
Open University Press, 2002
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- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-181) and index
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Description
* How have health, illness and medicine been affected by social change?
* What are the implications of disorganized capitalism, neo-liberalism and the 'Third Way' for health and healing?
* How important are class, gender and ethnic relations for health care reforms and the distribution of health?
Health and Social Change offers a clear and incisive examination of the social changes that have affected capitalist societies, and their ramifications for health and for systems of healing. It reviews the major paradigms of medical sociology and considers theories of the 'postmodern turn'. The author draws on critical realism and critical theory to demonstrate the significance of the shift from organized to disorganized capitalism for health care reform, in particular in Britain and the USA; for the present widening of health inequalities; and for people's use of popular, folk and professional forms of healing. He goes on to examine the role of a critical sociology and its necessary relationship to civil society and deliberative democracy. The result is an engaging and thought-provoking text for students, researchers and professionals interested in health and social change.
Table of Contents
Series editor's foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section one: health, medicine and society
Paradigms and presuppositions
Postmodern options
pros, cons and rationality
Theorizing social change
Section two: structural divisions in health and health care
Health care reform
The new inequality and health
Lifeworld narratives and expert cultures
Section three: the need for a critical sociology
From critical theory to critical sociology
References
Index.
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