The Sociology of health & illness : critical perspectives /
A text that brings a critical and conceptual sociological orientation to bear on the issues underlying the current health care crisis and on proposed changes in the health system.
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New York, N.Y. :
Worth,
2009.
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| Edition: | 8th ed. |
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| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The Sociology of health & illness : |b critical perspectives / |c [edited by] Peter Conrad. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Sociology of health and illness |
| 250 | |a 8th ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York, N.Y. : |b Worth, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a ix, 625 p. : |b ill. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Medical measures and the decline of mortality / John B. McKinlay, Sonja M. McKinlay -- Social class, susceptibility, and sickness / S. Leonard Syme, Lisa F. Berkman -- Excess mortality in Harlem / Colin McCord, Harold P. Freeman -- Gender differences in mortality : causes and variation in different societies / Ingrid Waldron -- Disease and disadvantage in the United States and in England / James Banks [and others] -- Popular epidemiology : community response to toxic waste-induced disease / Phil Brown -- Social relationships and health / James S. House, Karl R. Landis, Debra Umberson -- Dying alone : the social production of urban isolation / Eric Klinenberg -- Health inequalities : relative or absolute material standards? / Richard Wilkinson -- Anorexia nervosa in context / Joan Jacobs Brumberg -- AIDS and stigma / Gregory M. Herek -- Whose deaths matter? : mortality, advocacy, and attention to disease in the mass media / Elizabeth Armstrong, Dan Carpenter, Marie E. Hojnacki -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Self-help literature and the making of an illness identity : the case of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) / Kristin Barker -- The meaning of medications : another look at compliance / Peter Conrad -- The remission society / Arthur W. Frank -- Professionalization, monopoly, and the structure of medical practice / Peter Conrad, Joseph W. Schneider -- Notes on the decline of midwives and the rise of medical obstetricians / Richard W. Wertz, Dorothy C. Wertz -- The end of the golden age of doctoring / John B. McKinlay, Lisa D. Marceau -- Countervailing power : the changing character of the medical profession in the United States / Donald W. Light -- A caring dilemma : womanhood and nursing in historical perspective / Susan Reverby -- From quackery to 'complementary' medicine : the American medical profession confronts alternative therapies / Terri A. Winnick -- The health care industry : where is it taking us? / Arnold S. Relman -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The 'pinking' of viagra culture : drug industry efforts to create and repackage sex drugs for women / Heather Hartley -- Why the United States has no national health insurance : stakeholder mobilization against the welfare state, 1945-1996 / Jill Quadagno -- Paying for health care / Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach -- Doctoring as a business : money, markets, and managed care / Deborah A. Stone -- Uninsured in America / Gregory Weiss -- Young, sick, and part-time : the vulnerability of youth and the new American job market / Susan Starr Sered, Rushika Fernandopulle -- The struggle between the voice of medicine and the voice of the lifeworld / Elliot G. Mishler -- Social death as a self-fulling prophecy / Stefan Timmermans -- The language of case presentation / Renee R. Anspach -- 'Choosing later' about dialysis treatment near the end of life / Ann J. Russ, Janet K. Shim, Sharon R. Kaufman -- The artificial heart : how close are we and do we want to get there? / Paul D. Simmons -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Issues in the application of high cost medical technology : the case of organ transplantation / Nancy G. Kutner -- A mirage of genes / Peter Conrad -- The prevalence of risk factors among women in the United States / Robert A. Hahn [and others] -- Risk as a moral danger : the social and political functions of risk discourse in public health / Deborah Lupton -- Medicine as an institution of social control / Irving Kenneth Zola -- The shifting engines of medicalization / Peter Conrad -- Rationing medical progress : the way to affordable health care / Daniel Callahan -- The trouble with rationing / Arnold S. Relman -- Politicizing health care / John McKnight -- Helping ourselves : the limits and potential of self-help / Ann Withorn -- Illness and internet empowerment : writing and reading breast cancer in cyberspace / Victoria Pitts -- Comparative models of 'health care' systems / Donald W. Light -- Health care reform : lessons from Canada / Raisa Berlin Deber -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The British national health service : continuity and change / Jonathan Gabe -- A case of refocusing upstream : the political economy of illness / John B. McKinlay -- Embodied health movements : new approaches to social movements in health / Phil Brown [and others]. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a A text that brings a critical and conceptual sociological orientation to bear on the issues underlying the current health care crisis and on proposed changes in the health system. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Social medicine. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Conrad, Peter, |d 1945- | |
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| 906 | |0 OCLC | ||