New Directions In The Sociology Of Health (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Payne, Geoff; Abbott, Pamela

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The area of the sociology of medicine has developed its own internal debates. Over the years there has been a shift from a sociology in medicine to a sociology of medicine and then towards a sociology of health and illness. This book discusses the latter perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135386764
• Artikelnr.: 47890760

Autorenporträt

Geoff Payne is Assistant Director and Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at Polytechnic South West. He is author of Employment and Opportunity, 1987, and Mobility and Change in Modern Society, 1987, as well as articles on social mobility, social research and education. Pamela Abbott is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at Polytechnic South West. Previous publications include Community Care for Mentally Handicapped Children', 1987 (with Roger Sapsford); Women and Social Class, 1987 (with Roger Sapsford); An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives, 1990 (with Claire Wallace).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Developing the Sociology of Health Chapter 2
Socio-economic Conditions and Aspects of Health: Respiratory Symptoms in
Four West Yorkshire Mining Localities Chapter 3 Opening the 'Black Box':
Inequalities in Women's Health Chapter 4 Distance Decay and Information
Deprivation: Health Implications for People in Rural Isolation Chapter 5
'We're Home Helps because we Care': The Experience of Home Helps Caring for
Elderly People Chapter 6 Hooked? Media Responses to Tranquillizer
Dependence Chapter 7 Regulating our Favourite Drug Chapter 8 Say No to
Drugs, but Yes to Clean Syringes? Chapter 9 Using Alternative Therapies:
Marginal Medicine and Central Concerns Chapter 10 Caribbean Home Remedies
and their Importance for Black Women's Health Care in Britain Chapter 11
Health and Work in the 1990s: Towards a New Perspective Chapter 12 Where
was Sociology in the Struggle to Re-establish Public Health?