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Author Collyer, Fran

Title Mapping the sociology of health and medicine : America, Britain, and Australia compared / by Fran Collyer
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents List of Illustrations -- Theoretical Frameworks and Beginnings -- Past and Present: Three National Sociologies of Health and Medicine -- Disciplines, Professions and Specialities -- The Study and its Methods -- National Trends in the Sociology of Health and Medicine Since 1990 -- Old Roads and New Pathways: Reflections, Conclusions and a Way Forward
Summary This book is a study of disciplines and their specialities. It poses sociological questions about the formation of intellectual fields and their social relations, and offers an in-depth, historical study of one of the largest specialities of the discipline of sociology - the sociology of health and medicine - across three countries: the United States of America, Britain and Australia. Employing a radical new theory of disciplines, this book reveals unexpected connections between the ideas of sociologists and the context they work within. It answers questions about where they work, who they cite and collaborate with, and highlights distinct differences in the practice of sociology from one country to the next. In doing so, this book offers evidence of the effects of sweeping changes to the university sector and the global publishing industry on the working lives of sociologists, not least the impact of commercial research sponsorship on the knowledge they produce
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Social medicine -- United States
Social medicine -- Great Britain
Social medicine -- Australia
Medicine, Comparative -- United States
Medicine, Comparative -- Great Britain
Medicine, Comparative -- Australia
Social medicine.
Cross-cultural studies.
Social Medicine
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Medical sociology -- USA -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Australia.
Health systems & services -- USA -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Australia.
Social research & statistics -- USA -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Australia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Health and Fitness.
Cross-cultural studies
Medicine, Comparative
Social medicine
SUBJECT United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Subject Australia
Great Britain
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137009319
1137009314
9781784027872
1784027871
9781280680687
1280680687
9786613657626
661365762X