Health and Social Theory

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ISBN: 9780230517424 | 0230517420
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/15/2010

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Concise yet comprehensive, this book draws together key theoretical perspectives and significant research work in health and social theory. Exploring issues such as health inequities, healthcare systems and the medicalization of everyday life, it is essential critical reading for all students of the sociology of health and medical sociology.

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List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
Foreword	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Empirical and Theoretical Levels of Research	p. 4
Outline of Chapters	p. 7
Foundations of Medical Sociology	p. 14
Health and Revolution	p. 14
Medical Atomism and Sociological Collectivism	p. 21
Medical Sociology and Epidemiology	p. 23
The Development of Medical Sociology	p. 26
Theoretical Contours	p. 28
The Sick Role: Parsons and Structural Functionalism	p. 29
Medical Sociology's Expanding Theoretical Base	p. 41
Sick People or Sick Societies?	p. 47
Refocusing: From Roles and Populations to Discourse	p. 52
Conclusion	p. 55
Health Inequities	p. 56
How do Social Researchers Study Health Inequities?	p. 58
Income Inequality as a Social Determinant of Health	p. 59
Interpretivist Approaches in Health Inequities Research	p. 84
Conclusion	p. 90
Health Care Systems	p. 92
Health Care Systems as Outcomes of Political Struggle	p. 93
Comparing Health Care Systems	p. 94
Conclusion	p. 113
Medicalization	p. 114
Development of the Concept	p. 115
Empirical Research on Medicalization	p. 132
Conclusion	p. 136
The Medical Encounter	p. 137
Models of the Medical Encounter	p. 140
The Medical Encounter and Unexplained Symptoms	p. 148
The Medical Encounter and the Reflexive Self: A Critique of Giddens and Beck	p. 154
A (Re)Turn to Parsons?	p. 158
From the Micro-politics of the Medical Encounter to the Macro-politics of Inequities	p. 159
Conclusion	p. 161
Conclusion	p. 163
The Bearing of Social Theory on Empirical Research in Medical Sociology	p. 165
The Bearing of Empirical Research on Social Theory in Medical Sociology	p. 166
Integrating Theory and Method	p. 167
Notes	p. 169
Further Reading	p. 172
References	p. 174
Index	p. 196
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