| Description |
xi, 370 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- Contributors -- Pt. I. Sociology matters -- 1. Postmodernism and 'health' -- 2. Inequalities in late-modern health care -- 3. Consumer reconstructions of medical knowledge in Australia -- 4. Emotions, equity and health -- 5. Evolutionary medicine -- Pt. 2. Experience matters -- 6. Health matters in developing economies -- 7. Ethnicity, health and health care in Britain -- 8. Children's images of health -- 9. Health and the discourse of weight control -- 10. Containing the body -- 11. A good enough death? -- Pt. 3. Care matters -- 12. Medicine and health care in popular media -- 13. Trust and medical authority -- 14. Uncertainty in medical decision-making -- 15. Looking after patients and doctors -- 16. Psychiatric disability and community based care -- 17. Nurses and the ideal of patient participation -- 18. Health and the dying person -- Pt. 4. Prevention matters -- 19. Home ownership and health in the United Kingdom -- 20. Alcohol in indigenous Australian communities -- 21. AIDS, women and the body politic -- 22. A well-shaped man -- Index |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Health risk assessment.
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Health services accessibility -- Australia.
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Public health -- Australia.
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Right to health -- Australia.
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Social medicine -- Australia.
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Social medicine -- Great Britain.
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Social medicine -- New Zealand.
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Social medicine.
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| Author |
Petersen, Alan R., 1953-
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Waddell, Charles.
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| LC no. |
98194038 |
| ISBN |
1864485647 |
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