Research Catalog

Title

Classic texts in health care / edited by Lesley Mackay, Keith Soothill, Kath Melia.

Publication

Oxford [England] ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mackay, Lesley
• Soothill, Keith
• Melia, Kath M.

Description

x, 337 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Nursing Care
• Education, Medical
• Health
• Delivery of Health Care
• Medical care > Miscellanea
• Medical care > Great Britain > Miscellanea
• Integrated delivery of health care > Great Britain > Miscellanea
• Integrated delivery of health care > Miscellanea
• Patient Care
• United Kingdom

Genre/Form

• Collected Work
• Trivia and miscellanea

Note

• Consists of a collection excerpts from the original texts.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Editors' Note -- Introduction -- 1. The social nature of the definition problem in health -- 2. Health, illness and capitalism -- 3. The role of medicine: dream, mirage, or nemesis? -- 4. Epidemic psychology: a model -- 5. The rise of surveillance medicine -- 6. The conceptualization of functioning, health and quality of life -- 7. The health service consumer: a sociological misconception -- 8. A model of the lay evaluation of medical care -- 9. The process of becoming ill -- 10. The social character of illness: deviance or politics -- 11. A view of the patient -- 12. Women, health and medicine -- 13. You are dangerous to your health: the ideology and politics of victim blaming -- 14. Health and lifestyles -- 15. The effects of unemployment on family life -- 16. Nursing the dying -- 17. Asylums -- 18. Normal rubbish: deviant patients in casualty departments -- 19. Chancers, pests and poor wee souls: problems of legitimation in psychiatric nursing -- 20. Old folks and dirty work: the social conditions for patient abuse in a nursing home -- 21. Dead on arrival -- 22. The making of a physician -- general statement of ideas and problems -- 23. Some preliminaries to a sociology of medical education -- 24. Boys in white: student culture in medical school -- 25. The silent dialogue: a study in the social psychology of professional socialization -- 26. The reproduction of the professional community -- 27. Learning and working: the occupational socialization of nurses -- 28. Professions in process -- 29. The reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action -- 30. Profession of medicine: a study of the sociology of applied knowledge -- 31. Teachers, nurses, social workers -- 32. The new managerialism and professionalism in nursing -- 33. Sexual division of labour: the case of nursing -- 34. The importance of being a nurse -- 35. The faces of Florence Nightingale: functions of the heroine legend in an occupational sub-culture -- 36. The functioning of social systems as a defence against anxiety -- 37. The fabrication of nurse-patient relationships -- 38. Emotional labour: skill and work in the social regulation of feelings -- 39. The emotional labour of nursing: its impact on interpersonal relations, management and the educational environment in nursing -- 40. The nursing process: from development to implementation -- 41. Medicine as an institution of social control -- 42. Professions and patriarchy -- 43. The hospital and its negotiated order -- 44. Professional powers: a study of the institutionalization of formal knowledge -- 45. Uncertainty in medical prognosis: clinical and functional -- 46. The doctor-nurse game -- 47. When nurse knows best: some aspects of nurse/doctor interaction in a casualty department -- 48. Health care before the National Health Service -- 49. The National Health: a radical perspective -- 50. The gift relationship: from human blood to social policy -- 51. Inequalities in health -- the Black Report: a summary and comment -- 52. Women, the NHS, and the control of reproduction -- 53. Health and deprivation: inequality and the North -- 54. Justice and allocation of medical resources -- 55. The NHS -- an assessment -- 56. Ambiguous past, uncertain future -- Index.

ISBN

0750627387

LCCN

^^^98015950^

OCLC

• 38562451
• SCSB-12156370

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library