Constructions of Health and Illness: European

Exploring the concepts of health and illness within a number of European countries, this illuminating and inspiring book focuses upon the way in which definitions and constructions of health come about at different levels.

List of Contributors

vii

List of Figures and Tables

viii

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

Ian Shaw and Kaisa Kauppinen

1

(3)

1. The Work of Pathologists: Visualisation of Disease and Control of Uncertainty

Elianne Riska

4

(12)

2. Constructing Risk: Rumour as a Resource for Medical Sociology

Ian Shaw and Louise Woodward

16

(10)

3. Lay Understandings of Health: A Qualitative Study

Sara O'Sullivan and Anne Stakelum

26

(18)

4. Self-Rated Health in Moscow and Helsinki

Hannele Palosuo

44

(21)

5. Pragmatism, Globalism and Culturalism: Health Pluralism of Chinese People in Britain

Ruby C.M. Chau and Sam W.K. Yu

65

(15)

6. Shifting Views of Depression: Analysing People's Accounts of their Suffering

Ilka Kangas

80

(9)

7. The Construction of Lay Resistance to Vaccination

Pru Hobson-West

89

(18)

8. Pain, Loss and Collective Action: Health Consumer Groups and the Policy Process

Judith Allsop, Kathryn Jones and Rob Baggott

107

(17)

9. The Medicalisation of Unhappiness? The Management of Mental Distress in Primary Care

Ian Shaw and Louise Woodward

124

(13)

Index

137

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Constructions of Health and Illness: European Perspectives

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