| Description |
xxii, 522 pages : illustration ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: health sociology and the social model of health 1. Imagining health problems as social issues -- 2. Theorising health: major theoretical perspectives in health sociology -- 3. Researching health: methodological traditions and innovations -- Pt 1 The social production and distribution of health and illness 4. Class, health inequality, and social justice -- 5. Gender and health -- 6. Indigenous health: the perpetuation of inequality -- 7. The social appetite: a sociological approach to food and nutrition -- Pt 2 The social construction of health and illness 8. Ethnicity, health and multiculturalism -- 9. The medicalisation of deviance -- 10. The body, medicine and society -- 11. Health promotion dilemmas -- 12. The Human Genome Project: a sociology of medical technology -- 13. Ageing, dying, and death in the twenty-first century -- Pt 3 The social organisation of health care: professions, politics, and policies 14. Power, politics, and health care -- 15. Challenges to medical dominance -- 16. Nursing and sociology: an uneasy relationship -- 17. Alternative medicine -- 18. Jostling for position: a sociology of allied health -- 19. Community health services in Australia -- Conclusion: future directions in the social model of health. 21. Citizenship, rights, and health care -- 21. Health sociology and your sociological imagination |
| Summary |
Introduces the theories, concepts and issues that are needed to equip students with an understanding of the issues confronting health sociology. Author from University of Newcastle, NSW |
| Analysis |
Social & preventive medicine (Australia) |
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Sociology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Previous ed.: 2002 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 462-512) and index |
| Subject |
Social medicine.
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Sociology -- Australia.
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Social medicine -- Australia.
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Public health -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Health -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Social Medicine.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
| Author |
Germov, John, editor
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| LC no. |
2006271848 |
| ISBN |
0195517415 |
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