The New Sociology of the Health Service

ISBN-13: 9780415455978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 264 str.

Gabe Jonathan

Opis

This text provides a vital new sociological framework for analysing health policy and health care, covering a broad range of key contemporary health services issues. It is of use to all students and researchers of medical sociology and health policy.

Spis treści

1. Remaking a Trustworthy Medical Profession in Twenty-first Century Britain?  2. Changing Forms of Managerialism in the NHS: Hierarchies, Markets and Networks  3. The Restratification of Primary Care in England? A Sociological Analysis  4. Visions of Privatization: New Labour and the Reconstruction of the NHS  5. The Pharmaceutical Industry, the State and the NHS  6. Evidence-based Practice in UK Health Policy  7. Innovation and Implementation in Health Technology 8. Health Care, Consumerism and the Politics of Identity  9. Mainstream Marginality: `Non-orthodox’ Medicine in an `Orthodox’ Health Service  10. Social Care: Relationships, Markets and Ethics  11. Equalizing the People’s Health: a Sociological Perspective

O autorze

Jonathan Gabe, Michael Calnan