Research Catalog

Title

Health and disease : a reader / edited by Basiro Davey, Alastair Gray, and Clive Seale.

Publication

Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davey, Basiro.
• Gray, Alastair, 1953-
• Seale, Clive.

Description

xii, 436 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Social medicine
• Medical care
• Public health
• Sociology, Medical
• Medicine
• Disease
• Delivery of Health Care
• Health
• Collected Work

Genre/Form

Collected Work.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Pt. 1. Concepts of health, disease and healing. 1. Mirage of health / Rene Dubos. 2. The history of pernicious anaemia from 1822 to the present day / Irvine Loudon. 3. Feed a cold, starve a fever / Cecil Helman. 4. What is health? / Mildred Blaxter. 5. Illness as metaphor / Susan Sontag. 6. Using alternative therapies: marginal medicine and central concerns / Ursula M. Sharma. 7. The problem of the whole-person in holistic medicine / David Armstrong. 8. Ethnic minorities and the psychiatrist / Roland Littlewood and Maurice Lipsedge. 9. Hysteria and demonic possession / Mary James. 10. Protecting a vulnerable margin: towards an analysis of how the mouth came to be separated from the body / Sarah Nettleton -- Pt. 2. Experiencing health and disease. 11. The insanity of place / Erving Goffman. 12. Tangled feelings: an account of Alzheimer's disease / Julia Burton-Jones. 13. The social impact of childhood asthma / Andrew Nocon and Tim Booth.
• 14. Coping with migraine / Sally MacIntyre and David Oldman. 15. Coming to terms with diabetes / David Kelleher. 16. Living with HIV and AIDS / Neil Small. 17. Pride against prejudice: 'lives not worth living' / Jenny Morris. 18. The stigma of infertility / Naomi Pfeffer. 19. Hard-earned lives: experiences of doctors and health services / Jocelyn Cornwell. 20. 'Some bloody do-gooding cow' / Tony Parker -- Pt. 3. Influences on health and disease. 21. Health: 1844 / Frederick Engels. 22. Inequalities in health: ten years and little further on / J. N. Morris. 23. Depression: a sociological view / George W. Brown. 24. Entitlement and deprivation / Jean Dreze and Amartya K. Sen. 25. Deaths under 50 / Medical Services Study Group. 26. Malingering / Richard Asher. 27. Why must I be a teenager at all? / Barry Bogin. 28. A new division of the life course / Peter Laslett. 29. Prevention is better... / Helen Roberts, Susan Smith and Carol Bryce --
• Pt. 4. The role of medicine. 30. The medical contribution / Thomas McKeown. 31. The importance of social intervention in Britain's mortality decline c. 1850-1914: a re-interpretation of the role of public health / Simon Szreter. 32. Effectiveness and efficiency / A. L. Cochrane. 33. Ethical dilemmas in evaluation / A. Correspondence. 34. Assessment of screening for cancer / Carlo La Vecchia, Fabio Levi, Silvia Franceschi and Peter Boyle. 35. The global eradication of smallpox / Marc A. Strassburg. 36. The epidemics of modern medicine / Ivan Illich. 37. The mode of state intervention in the health sector / Vicente Navarro. 38. Priority setting in the NHS / Alan Williams -- Pt. 5. The social context of health care. 39. The evolution of the health-care systems in the United States and the United Kingdom: similarities and differences / Rosemary Stevens. 40. Britain's health care experiment / Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein.
• 41. Transferring power in health care / Fedelma Winkler. 42. The village health worker: lackey or liberator / David Werner. 43. Traditional Indian medicine in practice in an Indian metropolitan city / A. Ramesh and B. Hyma. 44. A short cut to better services: day surgery in England and Wales / The Audit Commission -- Pt. 6. Health work. 45. Caring for the spouse who died / Ann Bowling and Ann Cartwright. 46. 'We didn't want him to die on his own' - nurses' accounts of nursing dying patients / David Field. 47. Truth, trust, and paternalism / Thurstan B. Brewin. 48. Doctor knows best / Ann Oakley. 49. Second Report on Maternity Services (the 'Winterton report') / House of Commons Health Committee. 50. Normal rubbish: deviant patients in casualty departments / Roger Jeffery. 51. Food-work: maids in a hospital kitchen / Elizabeth Paterson -- Pt. 7. Prospects and speculations. 52. The flesh / J. Desmond Bernal.
• 53. What can be done about inequalities in health? / Margaret Whitehead and Goran Dahlgren. 54. A health promotion primer for the 1990s / Lester Breslow. 55. Public health heresy: a challenge to the purchasing orthodoxy / Paula Whitty and Ian Jones. 56. The Greening of medicine / Patrick C. Pietroni. 57. Potential health effects of global climatic and environmental changes / Alexander Leaf. 58. The welfare man / Chris Beckett. 59. Exits / Sally Vincent. 60. The shadow of genetic injustice / Benno Muller-Hill. 61. The evolution of Utopia / Steve Jones. 62. The last well person / Clifton K. Meador.

ISBN

• 0335193269
• 0335192092 (pbk.)

LCCN

94002470

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries