Sociology as Applied to Health and Medicine

ISBN-13: 9781137577375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 464 str.

Graham Scambler

Opis

A new edition of a seminal sociology of health textbook which offers an up-to-date, concise and theoretically and empirically informed introduction to the core topics in the sociology of health and health care.

Spis treści

Introduction; Graham Scambler.- PART I: SOCIAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE.- 1. Society and Changing Patterns of Health and Disease; Ray Fitzpatrick and Ewen Speed.- 2. Social Determinants of Health and Disease; Fiona Stevenson.- 3. Globalisation and Health; Judy Green.- PART II: SOCIAL FACTORS IN MEDICAL PRACTICE.- 4. Health and Illness Behaviour; Fiona Stevenson.- 5. The Doctor-Patient Relationship; Myfanwy Morgan.- 6. Living with Long-Term Illness and Disability; Sasha Scambler.- 7. Dying, Death and Bereavement; Graham Scambler.- PART III: SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND HEALTH.- 8. Social Class and Health Inequalities; Graham Scambler.- 9. Gender and Health; Annette Scambler & Sasha Scambler.- 10. Ethnicity and Health; James Nazroo & Moira Kelly.- 11. Later Life, Health and Society; Paul Higgs.- PART IV: CHANGING FORMS OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE.- 12. Deviance, Sigma and Social Control; Graham Scambler.- 13. The Shifting Boundaries of Medical Knowledge; Paul Higgs.- 14. Reconceptualising Bodies; Nick Fox.- 15. Digital Health and Health Care; Deborah Lupton.- PART V: ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH SERVICES.- 16. Health Care Systems; Nicholas Mays.- 17. Healers and Health Professionals; Iain Crinson.- 18. Public Health and Health Promotion; Judy Green.- 19. Measuring Health Outcomes; Ray Fitzpatrick.- 20. Assessing Health Care System Performance; Nicholas Mays and Ray Fitzpatrick

O autorze

Graham Scambler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College London, UK, and Visiting Professor of Sociology at Surrey University, UK. He is the author and editor of many books and journal articles on social theory and the sociology of health and healthcare. He is a founding co-editor of the international journal Social Theory and Health. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.