Kevin White

An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With expanded coverage of Fleck and a new section on 'Transformations of the Medical Profession', this updated Third Edition provides students with a sociologically-focussed and theoretically informed introduction

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473994492
• Artikelnr.: 47137138

Autorenporträt

Kevin White is Reader in Sociology at the Australian National University, Canberra. He has held appointments at Flinders University, Wollongong University and Victoria University, Wellington New Zealand. He has published widely in the sociology of health and in the social history of medicine. At ANU he lectures the large introductory class, Introduction to Social Psychology, The Sociology of Health and Illness, Classical Social theory and Qualitative Methods.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Social Construction of Medical Knowledge
The Development of the Sociology of Health
Postmodernity, Epidemiology and Neo-Liberalism
Materialist Approaches to the Sociology of Health
Parson, American Sociology of Medicine and the Sick Role
Foucault and the Sociology of Medical Knowledge
Health, Gender and Feminism
Race, Ethnicity and Health
Conclusion

Rezensionen

Praise for second edition:

Kevin White guides us through the many reasons for the centrality of health showing clearly that health and illness are the products not just of our biology but of the society into which we are born. He expertly draws on the works of Parsons, Marx, Foucault and feminist writers to provide an authoritative analysis of the social nature of health.

Ray Fitzpatrick