Research Catalog

Illness and social relations : issues in the sociology of health care

Title
Illness and social relations : issues in the sociology of health care / Evan Willis.
Author
Willis, Evan, 1952-
Publication
St. Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 1994.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextRequest in advance RA418.3.A8 W54 1994Off-site

Details

Description
vii, 204 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • Social medicine > Australia
  • Sociology, Medical
  • Australia
Genre/Form
Collected Work.
Note
  • Collection of articles previously published in various journals.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-202) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. The Health Workforce. 2. Who does what to whom?: The social structure of health care delivery. 3. Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the evolution of the occupational division of labour in health care. 4. Medical dominance and the politics of nursing skills. 5. Complementary healers -- Pt. 2. Technology and Health Care. 6. Technological innovation and the labour process in health care. 7. The social relations of medical technology: the case of echocardiography. 8. The changing social relations of condom technology in the AIDS era -- Pt. 3. Ill Health as Social Process. 9. RSI as a social process. 10. The industrial relations of occupational health and safety: a labour process approach. 11. Hierarchies, bureaucracies and professions: the Medicare review (part 2).
ISBN
1863734864
LCCN
94174207
OCLC
ocm31816712
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries