This book presents an international snapshot of the social organisation of healthcare.

• Papers describe major trends in healthcare in Australia, Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, South America, UK and the USA
  
• Subjects addressed include new models of organisational governance, new medical technologies, and the promotion of private health insurance.
  
• Highlights convergence and divergence across national and international contexts
  
• Fosters links between organisational studies and medical sociology.
  
• Points to new research...

This Reader introduces students of sociology and health care to the changing fields of medical knowledge and medical work.

• Provides a chronicle of reseach in the field of medical knowledge, medical work and health care over the past 25 years.
  
• Summarises changes in how health care was delivered and how medical knowledge and practice were conceptualised over this period.
  
• Section introductions by the editors situate the articles within a wider body of literature.
  
• A valuable resource for student of sociiology, social...

This work presents a reinterpretation of modern political theory. It shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell only half the story. The sexual contract which establishes modern patriarchy and the political right of men over women is never mentioned.

Technogenarians investigates the older person's experiences of health, illness, science, and technology. It presents a greater theoretical and empirical understanding of the biomedical aspects of aging bodies, minds, and emotions, and the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions--.

• A unique scholarly investigation into elders as technology users
• Emphasizes the need to put aging, science, and technology in the center of analyses of health and illness
• Explores the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions-

• Offers a critical study...

The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions presents a series of readings that provide an up-to-date overview of the diverse sociological issues relating to population-based medical screening.

• Features new research data in most of the contributions
• Includes contributions from eminent sociologists such as David Armstrong, Stefan Timmermans, and Alison Pilnick
• Represents one of the only collections to specifically address the sociology of medical screening

Infectious disease pandemics are a rising threat in our globalizing world. This agenda-setting collection provides international analysis of the pressing sociological concerns they confront us with, from cross-border coordination of public health governance to geopolitical issues of development and social equity.

• Focuses on vital sociological issues raised by resurgent disease pandemics
• Detailed analysis of case studies as well as broader, systemic factors
• Contributions from North America, Europe and Asia provide international perspective
• Bold,...

A wide range of international contributions draw on theoretical and empirical sources to explore whether alternatives exist to both conceptualise and conduct research into what people do and don't do, in relation to their health and experiences of illness.

• Presents a collection of international contributions that complement, as well as critique, dominant conceptualisations of health behaviour
• Includes a wide range of both theoretical perspectives and empirical cases
• Reasserts the unique contribution social sciences can make to health research
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This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstrate the importance of research with children and from a child perspective, allowing for a fuller understanding of the meaning and impact of health and illness in children's lives.

• Demonstrates the importance of research with children and research from a child perspective, in order to fully understand the meaning and impact of health and illness in children's lives
• Encourages critical reflection on contemporary health policy and its relationships to culturally specific ways of knowing...

The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality presents a series of research-informed readings on the sociological contributions of technologies, practices, experiences, and organizational quality and safety across a range of healthcare contexts.

• Represents the first collection of peer-reviewed research articles showcasing ways that sociology can contribute to the ongoing policy concern of healthcare safety and quality
• Features original contributions from leading experts in healthcare related fields from three continents
• Reveals the state-of-the art in...

Materialities of Care addresses the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, furniture and architecture.