Research Catalog

Title

Sociology of health and illness : Australian readings / edited by Gillian M. Lupton and Jake M. Najman.

Publication

South Melbourne : Macmillan Education Australia, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lupton, Gillian M.
• Najman, Jakob M.

Description

x, 438 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Australia
• Delivery of Health Care
• Social Medicine
• Medical care > Australia
• Social medicine > Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Sociology, Health and Health Care / Gillian Lupton and Jake M. Najman -- 2. The Australian Health Care System: An Overview / Steven Duckett -- 3. The Politics of Health: Medicine versus the State / Ann Daniel -- 4. HIV Testing and the Social Relations of Medical Technology / Evan Willis -- 5. Masculine Medicine, Feminine Illness: Gender and Health / Dorothy Broom -- 6. Social Class and Health: A Summary of the Overseas and Australian Evidence / Gavin Turrell -- 7. Ethnicity and Health / Gary Easthope -- 8. The Health of Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders: A Socio-cultural Perspective / Neil Thomson -- 9. Towards Successful Ageing in the Twenty-first Century / Margaret Steinberg, Ken Donald, Michele J. Clark and Ruth Tyman -- 10. Doctors Learning their Trade: The Reproduction of Professional Power / Margaret Shapiro -- 11. Dissecting the Contemporary Nursing Struggle in Australia / Stephanie D. Short and Evelyn Sharman --
• 12. Fear, Faith or Rational Choice: Understanding the Users of Alternative Therapies / Alexandra Clavarino and Patsy Yates -- 13. The Allied Health Professions in Australia: Physio, Occupational and Speech Therapy Professions / Denise du Toit -- 14. Contexts and Communication for Health Promotion / Pam Byde -- 15. Preventing Cancer / John B. Lowe and Christopher B. Del Mar -- 16. AIDS and Society / Malcolm McCamish and Jake M. Najman -- 17. Sociology and Illicit Drug Use / Jeremy Maddox -- 18. The Sociology of Health and Illness: An Overview / Jake M. Najman and Gillian Lupton.

ISBN

• 0732927994 (pbk.)
• 0732928001

OCLC

• ocm34035663
• SCSB-4779248

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries