Handbook of social studies in health and medicine / edited by Gary L. Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick and Susan C. Scrimshaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albrecht, Gary L.

Fitzpatrick, Ray.

Scrimshaw, Susan.

EBSCOhost.

Series:

Sage reference

SAGE REFERENCE.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine.

Sociology, Medical.

Delivery of Health Care.

Medical Subjects:

Sociology, Medical.

Delivery of Health Care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 545 pages).

Edition:

Second ED.

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2000.

Language Note:

English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This is the first international and inter-disciplinary social science Handbook on health and medicine. Five years in the making, and building on the insights and advice of an international editorial board, the book brings together world-class figures to provide an indispensable, comprehensive resource book on social science, health and medicine.

Pinpointing the focal issues of research and debate in one volume, the material is organized into three sections: social and cultural frameworks of analysis; the experience of health and illness; and health care systems and practices. Each section consists of specially commissioned chapters designed to examine the vital conceptual and methodological practice and policy issues. Readers recei

Contents:

The history of the changing concepts of health and illness: outline of a general model of illness categories / Bryan S. Turner

Social theorizing about health and illness / David Armstrong

Classification and process in sociomedical understanding: towards a multilevel view of sociomedical methodology / Robert A. Rubinstein, Susan C. Scrimshaw, and Suzanne E. Morrissey

The social construction of medicine and the body / Deborah Lupton

A taxonomy of research concerned with place and health / Ralph Catalano and Kate E. Pickett

The globalization of health and disease: the health transition and global change / Emily C. Zielinski Gutiérrez and Carl Kendall

The social causation of health and illness / Johannes Siegrist

Socioeconomic inequalities in health: integrating individual-, community-, and societal-level theory and research / Stephanie A. Robert and James S. House.

Gender and health / Sandra D. Lane and Donald A. Cibula

Critical perspectives on health and aging / Carroll L. Estes and Karen W. Linkins

The social context of the new genetics / Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Mary Boulton

Cultural variation in the experience of health and illness / Ann McElroy and Mary Ann Jezewski

Ethnography and network analysis: the study of social context in cultures and societies / Robert T. Trotter, II

Personal experience of illness / Arthur Kleinman and Don Seeman

Critical narratives and the study of contemporary doctor-patient relationsihps / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Byron J. Good

Accounting for disease and distress: morals of the normal and abnormal / Margaret Lock

Experiencing chronic illness / Kathy Charmaz

The global emergence of disability / Gary L. Albrecht and Lois M. Verbrugge.

Reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies / Heléna Ragoné and Sharla K. Willis

Health-care utilization and barriers to health care / Judith D. Kasper

Concepts and measurement of health status and health-related quality of life / Colleen A. McHorney

Health behavior: from research to community practice / Thomas R. Prohaska, Karen E. Peters, and Jan S. Warren

The medical profession: knowledge, power, and autonomy / David Coburn and Evan Willis

The sociological character of health-care markets / Donald W. Light

Medical uncertainty revisited / Renée C. Fox

Alternative health practices and systems / Sarah Cant and Ursula Sharma

Comparative health systems: emerging convergences and globalization / Linda M. Whiteford and Lois LaCivita Nixon

The patient's perspective regarding appropriate health care / Angela Coulter and Ray Fitzpatrick.

Consumer and community participation: a reassessment of process, impact, and value / Deena White

An expanded conceptual framework of equity: implications for assessing health policy / Lu Ann Aday

Resources and rationing: managing supply and demand in health care / Stephen Harrison and Michael Moran

Reconfiguring health policy: simple truths, complex solutions / Steven Lewis, Marcel Saulnier, and Marc Renaud.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Handbook of social studies in health and medicine.

ISBN:

1848608411

9781848608412

9781847870964

1847870961

9781529714357

1529714354

9786611239879

6611239871

1281239879

9781281239877

Publisher Number:

99989526251

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.