The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine / edited by F. Collyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Collyer, F., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Medicine--History.

Medicine.

Sociology.

Social medicine.

Public health.

Social policy.

Social Theory.

History of Medicine.

Medical Sociology.

Public Health.

Social Policy.

Local Subjects:

Social Theory.

History of Medicine.

Sociology.

Medical Sociology.

Public Health.

Social Policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXX, 710 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This wide-reaching handbook offers a new perspective on the sociology of health, illness and medicine by stressing the importance of social theory. Examining a range of classic and contemporary female and male theorists from across the globe, it explores various issues including chronic illness, counselling and the rising problems of obesity.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1 The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks

Part I: The Nineteenth-Century Theorists

2 Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forgotten Women in the Study of Gender and Health

3 Karl Marx and Frederich Engels: Capitalism, Health and the Healthcare Industry

4 Florence Nightingale: A Research-Based Approach to Health, Healthcare and Hospital Safety

5 Émile Durkheim: Social Order and Public Health

6 Émile Durkheim and Thomas Luckmann: Religion, Post-Christian Spirituality and Mental Health

7 George Herbert Mead: Meanings and Selves in Illness

8 Max Weber: Bureaucracy, Formal Rationality and the Modern Hospital

Part II: The Early Twentieth-Century Theorists

9 Ludwik Fleck: Thought Collectives and the Sociology of Medical Knowledge

10 Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman: Civilised-Dramaturgical Bodies, Social Status and Health Inequalities

11 Alfred Schutz: The Co-construction of Meaning within Professional-Patient Interaction

12 Antonio Gramsci and Pierre Bourdieu: 'Whiteness' and Indigenous Healthcare

Part III: The Mid-Twentieth-Century Theorists

13 Talcott Parsons: His Legacy and the Sociology of Health and Illness

14 Robert Merton: Occupational Roles, Social Status and Health Inequalities

15 George Libman Engel: The Biopsychosocial Model and the Construction of Medical Practice

16 Harold Garfinkel: Lessons on Emergent Behaviours in Complex Organisations

17 Margaret Stacey: The Sociology of Health and Healing

18 Erving Goffman: The Moral Career of Stigma and Mental Illness

19 Eliot Freidson: Sociological Narratives of Professionalism and Modern Medicine.

20 Ivan Illich and Irving Kenneth Zola: Disabling Medicalisation

21 Michel Foucault: Governmentality, Health Policy and the Governance of Childhood Obesity

22 Niklas Luhmann: Social Systems Theory and the Translation of Public Health Research

23 Jürgen Habermas: Health and Healing Across the Lifeworld-System Divide

24 Pierre Bourdieu: Health Lifestyles, the Family and Social Class

Part IV: The Late Twentieth Century and Theorists of the Present

26 Vicente Navarro: Marxism, Medical Dominance, Healthcare and Health

27 Anthony Giddens: Structuration, Drug Use, Food Choice and Long-Term Illness

28 Anthony Giddens: The Reflexive Self and the Consumption of Alternative Medicine

29 Anthony Giddens: Risk, Globalisation and Indigenous Public Health

30 William C. Cockerham: The Contemporary Sociology of Health Lifestyles

31 George Ritzer: Rationalisation, Consumerism and the McDonaldisation of Surgery

32 Julia Kristeva: Abjection, Embodiment and Boundaries

33 Magali Sarfatti Larson and Anne Witz: Professional Projects, Class and Gender

34 Raewyn Connell: Hegemonic Masculinities, Gender and Male Health

36 Donna Haraway: The Digital Cyborg Assemblage and the New Digital Health Technologies

37 Mike Bury: Biographical Disruption and Long-Term and Other Health Conditions

38 Bryan S. Turner: Bringing Bodies and Citizenship into the Discussion of Disability

39 Peter Conrad: The Medicalisation of Society

40 Eva Feder Kittay: Dependency Work and the Social Division of Care

41 Gøsta Esping-Andersen: Welfare Regimes and Social Inequalities in Health

42 Bruno Latour: From Acting at a Distance Towards Matters of Concern in Patient Safety

43 Paul Farmer: Structural Violence and the Embodiment of Inequality

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781786841803

1786841800

9781349470228

1349470228

9781137355621

113735562X

OCLC:

903139893