Health, Medicine and Society

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ISBN: 9780415221368 | 0415221366
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Copyright: 4/26/2000

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Taking as its point of departure recent developments in health and social theory,Health, Medicine and Societybrings together a range of eminent, international scholars to reflect on key issues at the turn of the century. This book provides a state-of-the-art assessment of health-related issues at the turn of the millennium, as well as a cogent set of arguments for the centrality of health to contemporary social theory.

List of contributors

xiii

Introduction - Health, medicine and society: key thories, future agendas

(3)

Simon J. Williams

Jonathan Gabe

Michael Calnan

Rethinking social structure and health

(4)

The body

(3)

Risk and consumption

(4)

Emotions

(10)

PART I Rethinking social structure and health

(82)

Class, time and biography

(24)

Mildred Blaxter

Class

(9)

Time

(4)

Biography

(4)

Conclusion

(6)

Gender, postmodernism and health

(16)

Ellen Annandale

Judith Clark

Introduction

(2)

Beginnings: the class and gender debate

(1)

Class and gender in transition

(2)

Ludic and resistance postmodern feminism

(2)

New order, new problems

(6)

Conclusion

(3)

A place for race? Medical sociology and the critique of racial ideology

(20)

Chris Smaje

Introduction

(1)

Race, medical sociology and the critique of ideology

(5)

Pierre Bourdieu: habitus, capital and meta-theory

(4)

A research programme: health status and health care utilisation

(5)

Conclusion

(5)

Health, ageing and the lifecourse

(20)

Michael Bury

Introduction

(3)

Changing boundaries across the lifecourse: the optimistic perspective

(6)

Inequalities across the lifecourse: the pessimistic perspective

(4)

Conclusion

100

(7)

PART II The Body

107

(96)

Childhood bodies: social construction and translation

109

(14)

Alan Prout

Introduction

109

(1)

Foundationlist and anti-foundationalist accounts of the body

110

(1)

Childhood bodies

111

(3)

The body unfinished

114

(3)

The body translated

117

(3)

Conclusion

120

(3)

Flexible bodies: science and a new culture of health in the US

123

(23)

Emily Martin

Healthy bodies

125

(3)

Bodies as complex systems

128

(4)

Immunising (educating and training) the body

132

(3)

Working bodies

135

(3)

Post-Darwinism

138

(4)

Conclusion

142

(4)

`Recombinant bodies': narrative, metaphor and the gene

146

(23)

Deborah Lynn Steinberg

Introduction

146

(1)

Narrative, metaphor and the gene

147

(1)

Science, narration and embodiment: a critical standpoint

148

(1)

Genes and genre

149

(2)

Of monads and machines: Yanchinski's industrial utopia

151

(3)

Dark continents: genetics as colonial conquest

154

(5)

Making the world safe for genetics: Kitcher's diagnostic democracy

159

(7)

Conclusion

166

(3)

The politics of `disabled' bodies

169

(17)

Gareth Williams

Helen Busby

Introduction

169

(1)

The medical model

170

(2)

Chronic illness and disability: sociological perspectives

172

(3)

The politics of disability and disability theory

175

(2)

Situated knowledge

177

(3)

Towards an understanding of living in bodies in places

180

(6)

Reflections on the `mortal' body in late modernity

186

(17)

Lindsay Prior

Death, disease and the body in the modern world

189

(6)

The certainty of mortality is transformed into a personal risk

195

(4)

Conclusion

199

(4)

PART III Risk and consumption

203

(72)

Food, risk and subjectivity

205

(14)

Deborah Lupton

Introduction

205

(1)

Food and health risks in the `risk society'

206

(4)

Breaching boundaries: food, risk and cultural transgression

210

(3)

The risks of the `uncivilised' body

213

(3)

Conclusion

216

(3)

The ritual of health promotion

219

(17)

Robert Crawford

Pleasure or denial: the ritualisation of ambivalence

225

(6)

Conclusion

231

(5)

Drugs and risk: developing a sociology of HIV risk behaviour

236

(19)

Graham Hart

Simon Carter

Introduction

236

(1)

Current paradigms of non-medical drug consumption

237

(3)

Understanding drug use: the example of Ecstasy

240

(1)

Macro-social analyses

241

(3)

Meso-social considerations

244

(2)

Micro-social accounts

246

(3)

From the micro to the macro: pleasure, risk and health

249

(1)

Conclusion

250

(5)

Health care and consumption

255

(20)

Jonathan Gabe

Michael Calnan

Introduction

255

(1)

Warde's model of production/consumption cycles

256

(1)

The internal market

257

(2)

The new managerialism

259

(5)

Promoting welfare pluralism

264

(4)

Conclusion

268

(7)

PART IV Emotions

275

(76)

Emotions, psychiatry and social order: a Habermasian approach

277

(19)

Nick Crossley

Reason and emotion

278

(1)

Rational emotion

279

(1)

Emotion and the three validity claims

280

(1)

Irrational emotion, social order and psychiatry

281

(4)

System and lifeworld

285

(2)

The colonisation of the lifeworld and cultural impoverishment

287

(2)

The emotion industry

289

(3)

Conclusion: the colonisation of emotional life

292

(4)

Emotions, social structure and health: rethinking the class inequalities debate

296

(19)

Simon J. Williams

Introduction

296

(1)

The sociology of emotions

297

(3)

Emotional `capital' and the psychosocial pathways to disease

300

(6)

Emotions, health and `distributive justice'

306

(2)

Discussion and concluding remarks

308

(7)

Emotions and gender in US health care contexts: implications for change and stasis in the division of labour

315

(18)

Virginia Olesen

Emotions in changing organisations

317

(1)

Rationalisation in US health care contexts

318

(2)

Gender, occupational and emotional stratification

320

(1)

Emotion and gender

321

(1)

`Deviant' emotions

322

(1)

The individual in the social

323

(2)

Sociology of emotions and the sociology of health care

325

(8)

The ethics and politics of caring: postmodern reflections

333

(18)

Nick Fox

Introduction

333

(2)

The vigilance of the carer

335

(2)

Resisting the vigil: the gift of care

337

(2)

Care and nomadic subjectivity

339

(2)

Nomadology for carers and recipients of care

341

(4)

Conclusion

345

(6)

Notes

351

(8)

Index

359

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