Habermas, Critical Theory and Health

ISBN-13: 9780415191814 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 224 str.

G. Scambler; Graham Scambler

Opis

Jurgen Habermas is a leading social theorist of his generation, many of whose contributions have considerable relevance to medical sociology and areas of concern in the health arena. This volume not only provides a substantial introduction to the work of Habermas, but shows how his theories provide opportunites for new thinking on many health topics. These include: lay health knowledge, doctor-patient interaction, health care decision-making, health inequalities, health care rationing, self-help movements, medicalization, and the role of the critical sociologist. This text provides a resource for medical sociologists committed to the discipline and for those with more direct practical interests in health promotion and in good quality services and care.

Spis treści

Introduction: Unfolding Themes of an Incomplete Project 2. Lay Health Knowledge and the Concept of the Lifeworld 3. System, Lifeworld and Doctor-patient Interaction: Issues of Trust in a Changing World 4. Health Care Decision-making and the Politics of Health 5. Class, Power and the Durability of Health Inequalities 6. New Social Movements in the Health Domain 7. Finite Resources and Infinite Demand: Public Participation in Health Care Rationing 8. Habermas of Foucault, or Habermas and Foucault? The implications of a Shifting Debate for Medical Sociology 9. Civil Society, the Public Sphere and Deliberative Democracy

O autorze

Scambler, Graham