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Title Constructions of health and illness : European perspectives / edited by Ian Shaw and Kaisa Kauppinen
Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2004]
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Description [viii], 143 pages ; 24 cm
Series Global health
Global health.
Contents Introduction / Ian Shaw and Kaisa Kauppinen -- 1. The work of pathologists : visualisation of disease and control of uncertainty / Elianne Riska -- 2. Constructing risk : rumour as a resource for medical sociology / Ian Shaw and Louise Woodward -- 3. Lay understandings of health : a qualitative study / Sara O'Sullivan and Anne Stakelum -- 4. Self-rated health in Moscow and Helsinki / Hannele Palosuo -- 5. Pragmatism, globalism and culturalism : health pluralism of Chinese people in Britain / Ruby C. M. Chau and Sam W. K. Yu -- 6. Shifting views of depression : analysing people's accounts of their suffering / Ilka Kangas -- 7. The construction of lay resistance to vaccination / Pru Hobson-West -- 8. Pain, loss and collective action : health consumer groups and the policy process / Judith Allsop, Kathryn Jones and Rob Baggott -- 9. The medicalisation of unhappiness? The management of mental distress in primary care / Ian Shaw and Louise Woodward
Summary This volume provides a comparative European overview focusing upon the main areas of social construction as it relates to health and illness. This includes an emphasis upon lay beliefs and the different way understandings of health can impact upon health behaviour. The contributors also examine health knowledge and the interaction and comparison between lay and professional knowledge systems
Analysis Constructions of health
Illness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Social medicine -- Europe.
Health -- Social aspects -- Europe -- Congresses.
Diseases -- Social aspects -- Europe -- Congresses.
Social medicine -- Congresses.
Social medicine -- Europe -- Miscellanea.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Author Kauppinen-Toropainen, Kaisa.
Shaw, Ian, 1957-
European Sociological Association.
LC no. 2003065716
ISBN 0754632768 hardback alkaline paper