The sociology of health and illness : a reader / edited by Mike Bury.
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TextSeries: Routledge student readersPublication details: London : Routledge, 2003.Description: 304 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0415257565 (pbk.) :
- 306.461 BUR
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A wide-ranging collection of both classic writings and more recent articles in the sociology of health and illness, this reader is organized into the following sections:
* health beliefs and knowledge
* inequalities and patterning of health and illness
* professional and patient interaction
* chronic illness and disability
* evaluation and politics in health care.
With a thorough introduction which sets the scene for the field as a whole, and section introductions which contextualize each chapter, the reader includes a number of different perspectives on health and illness, is international in scope, and will provide an invaluable resource to students across a wide range of courses in sociology and the social sciences.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part 1 Health Beliefs and Knowledge
- 1 The individual, the way of life and the genesis of illness
- 2 Why do the victims blame themselves?
- 3 Lay epidemiology and the prevention paradox: the implications of coronary candidacy for health promotion
- 4 Lifestyle and its meaning
- 5 Popular epidemiology, toxic waste and social movements
- 6 Lay constructions of genetic risk
- Part 2 Inequalities and Pattering of Health and Illness
- 7 From social integration to health: Durkheim in the New Millenium
- 8 The epidemiological transition: from material scarcity to social disadvantage?
- 9 Explaining health inequalities: beyond Black and Barker
- 10 Health inequalities in the life course perspective
- 11 Genetic, cultural or socio-economic vulnerability?
- 12 Gender differences in health: are they as simple as they seem?
- Part 3 Professional and Patient Interactions
- 13 The social organisation of illness
- 14 Working on the front line: risk culture and nursing in the new NHS
- 15 Consumerism, reflexivity and the medical encounter
- 16 Going private: ceremonial forms in a medical oncology clinic
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- 18 Decision making in the physician-patient encounter: revisiting the shared treatment decision-making model
- Part 4 Chronic Illness and Disability
- 19 The genesis of chronic illness: narrative reconstruction
- 20 Medical sociology, chronic illness and the body
- 21 Defining and researching disability: challenges and responses
- 22 Defining impairment and disabilty: the issues at stake
- 23 From biographical disruption to biographical reinforcement: the case of HIV-positive men
- 24 Frank When bodies need voices
- Part 5 The Sociology of Evaluation and Politics of Health Care
- 25 Continuity and change in the British National Health Service
- 26 The politics of evidence-based medicine in the United Kingdom
- 27 A sociological perspective on rationing: power rhetoric and situated practices
- 28 Qualitative methods for assessing health care
- 29 Implementing evidence-based medicine in general practice: audit and qualitative study of antithrombotic treatment for atrial fibrilation
- 30 Random allocation or allocation at random? Patients' perspectives of participation in a randomised controlled trial
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Michael Bury is Professor of Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London.Jonathan Gabe is Reader in Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London.