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Health matters : a sociology of illness, prevention, and care
- Title
- Health matters : a sociology of illness, prevention, and care / edited by Alan Petersen & Charles Waddell.
- Publication
- Buckingham : Open University Press, 1998.
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- Description
- xi, 370 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Focusing on inequalities in health and illness, healthcare and prevention, this work presents contemporary perspectives and empirical evidence in the sociology of health and the social relationships which shape health status.
- Subject
- Public health > Australia
- Health risk assessment
- Social medicine > Australia
- Right to health > Australia
- Health services accessibility > Australia
- Social medicine
- Health attitudes
- Health attitudes
- Health risk assessment
- Health services accessibility
- Public health
- Right to health
- Social medicine
- Krankheit
- Pflege
- Prävention
- Soziologie
- Gezondheid
- Medische sociologie
- Preventieve geneeskunde
- Sociology, Medical
- Health Status
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Attitude to Health
- Health Services Accessibility > economics
- Health Status Indicators
- Australia
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. Sociology matters -- 1. Postmodernism and 'health' / Nick J. Fox -- 2. Inequalities in late-modern health care / Robin Bunton -- 3. Consumer reconstructions of medical knowledge in Australia / Stephanie D. Short -- 4. Emotions, equity and health / Simon J. Williams -- 5. Evolutionary medicine / James S. Chisholm -- pt. 2. Experience matters -- 6. Health matters in developing economies / Lenore Manderson -- 7. Ethnicity, health and health care in Britain / Waqar Ahmad and Lesley Jones -- 8. Children's images of health / Gillian Bendelow and Pat Pridmore -- 9. Health and the discourse of weight control / Deirdre Davies -- 10. Containing the body / Wendy Seymour -- 11. A good enough death? / Beverley McNamara -- pt. 3. Care matters -- 12. Medicine and health care in popular media / Deborah Lupton -- 13. Trust and medical authority / Ann Daniel -- 14. Uncertainty in medical decision-making / Gillian Hatt -- 15. Looking after patients and doctors / Valerie A. Clifford -- 16. Psychiatric disability and community based care / Julie Mulvany -- 17. Nurses and the ideal of patient participation / Saras Henderson -- 18. Health and the dying person / Allan Kellehear -- pt. 4. Prevention matters -- 19. Home ownership and health in the United Kingdom / Sarah Neuleton and Roger Burrows -- 20. Alcohol in indigenous Australian communities / Sherry Saggers and Dennis Gray -- 21. AIDS, women and the body politic / Catherine Waldby -- 22. A well-shaped man / David Buchbinder.
- ISBN
- 9780335202614
- 0335202616
- 9780335202607
- 0335202608
- OCLC
- ocm39616033
- 39616033
- SCSB-14652915
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library