Margaret Stacey

The Sociology of Health and Healing

A Textbook

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Part II is a sociological analysis of contemporary health care covering concepts of health and illness, the organization of the National Health Service, the division of labour, the impact of international capitalism, and the issues at stake in arguments about human reproduction.

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This text takes a step in pointing new directions for sociological and social-historical studies of health and health care. Throughout the book, the division of labour in health care, especially as it relates to social class and gender divisions, is taken as central.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415078726
• ISBN-10: 0415078725
• Artikelnr.: 21347034

Autorenporträt

Professor Margaret Stacey

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements Introduction: Some theoretical
and methodological thoughts Part I Health and Healing in Other Societies
The Plurality of Healing Systems in Tudor and Stuart England
Eighteenth-Century Foundations for the Development of Biomedicine Hospitals
and Public Health: Control, Exploitation and the Development of Medical
Knowledge Organizing the Division of Labour in Health Care Laying the Basis
for the National Health Service The State and the Division of Health
Labour: the National Health Service Part II Introduction and Biological
Base Concepts of Health and the Nature of Healing Knowledge (1): Lay
Concepts of Health and Illness Concepts of Health and the Nature of Healing
Knowledge (2): Alternative Healing Systems Concepts of Healing and the
Nature of Healing Knowledge (3): Biomedicine and Beyond Social Organization
of Health Care and the Division of Paid Health Labour Unpaid Workers in the
Division of Health Labour (1): the Patients Unpaid Workers in the Division
of Health Labour (2): the Unpaid Carers Health Care and Late
Twentieth-Century Capitalism Reproduction for the Twenty-First Century
References and Bibliography Index