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Author : William C. Cockerham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social medicine
ISBN : OCLC:1412756019
Author : Anne-Marie Barry,Chris Yuill
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781473995116
Understanding the Sociology of Health continues to offer an easy to read introduction to sociological theories essential to understanding the current health climate. Up-to-date with key policy and research, and including case studies and exercises to critically engage the reader, this book shows how sociology can answer complex questions about health and illness, such as why health inequalities exist. To better help with your studies this book contains: · a global perspective with international examples; · a new chapter on health technologies; · online access to videos of the author discussing key topics as well as recommended further readings; · a glossary, chapter summaries and reflective questions to help you engage with the subject. Though aimed primarily at students on health and social care courses and professions allied to medicine, this textbook provides valuable insights for anyone interested in the social aspects of health.
Author : Caragh Brosnan,Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134045259
The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century. Beginning with reflections on the historical and theoretical foundations of the sociology of medical education, the collection then focuses on current issues affecting medical students, the profession and the faculty, before exploring medical education in different national contexts. Leading sociologists analyze: the intersection of medical education and social structures such as gender, ethnicity and disability; the effect of changes in medical practice, such as the emergence of evidence-based medicine, on medical education; and the ongoing debates surrounding the form and content of medical curricula. By examining applied problems within a framework which draws from social theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu, this new collection suggests future directions for the sociological study of medical education and for medical education itself.
Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801892349
Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems—birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity—are now viewed as medical conditions. For better or worse, medicine increasingly permeates aspects of daily life. Building on more than three decades of research, Peter Conrad explores the changing forces behind this trend with case studies of short stature, social anxiety, "male menopause," erectile dysfunction, adult ADHD, and sexual orientation. He examines the emergence of and changes in medicalization, the consequences of the expanding medical domain, and the implications for health and society. He finds in recent developments—such as the growing number of possible diagnoses and biomedical enhancements—the future direction of medicalization. Conrad contends that the impact of medical professionals on medicalization has diminished. Instead, the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industries, insurance companies and HMOs, and the patient as consumer have become the major forces promoting medicalization. This thought-provoking study offers valuable insight into not only how medicalization got to this point but also how it may continue to evolve.
Author : Mervyn Susser,William Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Social medicine
ISBN : MINN:319510000454985
Author : Graham Scambler
Publisher : Bailliere Tindall
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015041347512
The 4th edition of this firmly established text gives a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of health, illness and health policy. Presents the principles of medical sociology and emphasizes practical issues. The text is concise, and designed in two colors with highlight boxes for easy use.
Author : Michael Bury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134969395
The Sociology of the Health Service responds directly to the need to develop a sociological analysis of current health policy. Topics covered vary from privatisation and health service management to health education and the politics of professional power. Also included is an histroical review of sociology's contributions to health policy and proposals for an agenda for sociological health policy research in the 1990s.
Author : Bernice A. Pescosolido,Jack K. Martin,Jane D. McLeod,Anne Rogers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441972613
The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry. The editors provide a blueprint for guiding research and teaching agendas for the first quarter of the 21st century. In a series of essays, this volume offers a systematic view of the critical questions that face our understanding of the role of social forces in health, illness and healing. It also provides an overall theoretical framework and asks medical sociologists to consider the implications of taking on new directions and approaches. Such issues may include the importance of multiple levels of influences, the utility of dynamic, life course approaches, the role of culture, the impact of social networks, the importance of fundamental causes approaches, and the influences of state structures and policy making.
Author : William C. Cockerham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400761933
This book provides readers with a single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health sociology. The book not only addresses the major theoretical approaches in the field today, it also identifies the future directions these theories are likely to take in explaining the social processes affecting health and disease. Many of the chapters are written by leading medical sociologists who feature the use of theory in their everyday work, including contributions from the original theorists of fundamental causes, health lifestyles, and medicalization. Theories focusing on both agency and structure are included to provide a comprehensive account of this important area in medical sociology.
Author : Sarah Nettleton
Publisher : Polity
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745628288
This reader brings together recent writing on health, illness and health care in contemporary society. It emphasizes the empirical nature of medical sociology and its relationship with the development of sociological theory.
Author : Jonathan Gabe,Michael Bury,Mary Ann Elston
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0761974423
This title provides a systematic and accessible introduction to medical sociology, beginning each 1500 word entry with a definition of the concept, then examines its origins, development, strengths and weaknesses, offering further reading guidance for independent learning, and drawing on international literature and examples.
Author : Rose Weitz
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : IND:30000076377955
Traditionally, medical sociology texts have been written from a medical perspective, focusing primarily on health issues as they have been defined by doctors, and often reading much like health education textbooks. Weitz, instead, adopts a critical perspective, sometimes challenging medical perspectives, sometimes raising broader issues beyond those of interest to the medical world. This perspective, which is more thoroughly sociological, is now more common among instructors than the older medical perspective.
Author : Fredric D. Wolinsky
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015003220350
Author : Hannah Bradby
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446258453
Sharp, bold and engaging, this book provides a contemporary account of why medical sociology matters in our modern society. Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, and applying the pragmatic demands of policy, this timely book explores society′s response to key issues such as race, gender and identity to explain the relationship between sociology, medicine and medical sociology. Each chapter includes an authoritative introduction to pertinent areas of debate, a clear summary of key issues and themes and dedicated bibliography. Chapters include: • social theory and medical sociology • health inequalities • bodies, pain and suffering • personal, local and global. Brimming with fresh interpretations and critical insights this book will contribute to illuminating the practical realities of medical sociology. This exciting text will be of interest to students of sociology of health and illness, medical sociology, and sociology of the body. Hannah Bradby has a visiting fellowship at the Department of Primary Care and Health Sciences, King′s College London. She is monograph series editor for the journal Sociology of Health and Illness and co-edits the multi-disciplinary journal Ethnicity and Health.
Author : Ellen Annandale
Publisher : Polity
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745613586
In this exciting introduction to the sociology of health and medicine, Annandale examines the core issues of the discipline and reassesses them in the light of recent developments in health care and social theory. The Sociology of Health and Medicine considers the way in which recent economic and social change has generated new issues and necessitated a re-evaluation of the traditional concerns in the field of health, illness and health care. Annandale examines how theoretical and methodological developments in social theory - such as post-structuralism and revisions to Marxist, feminist and symbolic interactionist thought - has led to new thinking in a number of areas. These include the processes linking "race", gender and class to health and illness, the sociology of the health service and the division of labour within it, and the experience of health and health care. Through a discussion of both traditional and new topics in the field, this book offers a wide-ranging and up-to-date assessment of the state of the sociology of health, illness and health care. The result is an innovative text that both reflects and advances changes in the discipline.