The sociology of health & illness : critical perspectives

書誌事項

The sociology of health & illness : critical perspectives

[edited by] Peter Conrad

Worth Publishers, c2005

7th ed

タイトル別名

The sociology of health and illness : critical perspectives

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注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This collection of 49 readings, including 9 new essays and 2 new revisions on such timely topics as AIDS and the healthcare industry, offers an integrated analysis of the most important issues regarding health and health care from a critical and sociological perspective. Substantive introductions set the readings in context and new chapters include topics such as gender differences in mortality, the stigma of AIDs, the artificial heart, and illness and internet empowerment.

目次

  • Part One: The Social Production Of Disease And Illness
  • The Social Nature of Disease
  • Medical Measures and the Decline of Mortality
  • Who Gets Sick? The Unequal Social Distribution of Disease
  • Social Class, Susceptibility, and Sickness
  • Excess Mortality in Harlem
  • Gender Differences in Mortality
  • A Tale of Two States
  • Population Health in Utah and Nevada
  • Our Sickening Social and Physical Environments
  • Popular Epidemiology: Community Response to Toxic Waste-Induced Disease
  • Social Relationships and Health
  • Dying Alone: The Social Production of Urban Isolation
  • Health Inequalities: Relative or Absolute Material Standards? The Social and Cultural Meanings of Illness
  • Anorexia Nervosa in Context
  • Aids and Stigma
  • The Experience of Illness
  • Self-help Literature and the Making of an Illness Identity
  • The Meaning of Medications: Another Look at Compliance
  • The Remission Society
  • Part Two The Social And Organization Of Medical Care
  • Creating and Maintaining the Dominance of Medicine
  • Professionalization, Monopoly, and the Structure of Medical Practice
  • Notes on the Decline of Midwives and the Rise of Medical Obstetricians
  • The End of the Golden Age of Doctoring
  • Countervailing Power
  • Changing Medical Organization and the Erosion of Trust
  • The Social Organization of Medical Workers
  • The US Health Care System
  • A Caring Dilemma: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective
  • AIDS and Its Impact on Medical Work: The Culture and Politics of the Shop Floor
  • Medical Industries
  • The Health Care Industry: Where is it Taking Us? Medications and the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Financing Medical Care
  • A Century of Failure: Health Care Reform in America
  • Paying for Health Care
  • Doctoring as a Business: Money, Markets, and Managed Care
  • Medicine in Practice
  • The Struggle between the Voice of Medicine and the Voice of the Lifeworld
  • Social Death as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  • The Language of Case Presentation
  • Alternative Health and the Challenges of Institutionalization
  • Dilemmas of Medical Technology
  • The Artificial Heart: How Close are We and Do We Want to Get There? Issues in the Application of High Cost Medical Technology: The Case of Organ Transplantation
  • A Mirage of Genes
  • Part Three Contemporary Critical Debates
  • The Relevance of Risk
  • The Prevalence of Risk Factors Among Women in the United States
  • Risk as Moral Danger: The Social and Political Functions of Risk Discourse in Public Health
  • The Medicalization of American Society
  • Medicine as an Institution of Social Control
  • Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine
  • Rationing Medical Care
  • Rationing Medical Progress: The Way to Affordable Health Care
  • The Trouble with Rationing
  • Part Four Toward Alternatives In Health Care
  • Community Initiatives
  • Politicizing Health Care
  • Helping Ourselves
  • Illness and Internet Empowerment: Writing and Reading Breast Cancer in Cyberspace
  • Comparative Health Policies
  • Comparative Models of Health Care Systems
  • Health Care Reform:

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA73128960
  • ISBN
    • 0716709988
  • LCCN
    2004559327
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    ix, 595 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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