Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine [electronic resource] / edited by Gary L. Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Susan C. Scrimshaw.

IT Carlow ebook.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The History of the Changing Concepts of Health and Illness: Outline of a General Model of Illness Categories / Bryan S. Turner -- Social Theorizing About Health and Illness / David Armstrong -- Classification and Process in Sociomedical Understanding: Towards a Multilevel View of Sociomedical Methodology / Robert A. Rubinstein, Susan C. Scrimshaw, and Suzanne E. Morrissey -- The Social Construction of Medicine and the Body / Deborah Lupton -- A Taxonomy of Research Concerned with Place and Health / Ralph Catalano and Kate E. Pickett -- The Globalization of Health and Disease: The Health Transition and Global Change / Emily C. Zielinski Gutiérrez and Carl Kendall -- The Social Causation of Health and Illness / Johannes Siegrist -- Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: Integrating Individual-, Community-, and Societal-Level Theory and Research / Stephanie A. Robert and James S. House -- Gender and Health / Sandra D. Lane and Donald A. Cibula -- Critical Perspectives on Health and Aging / Carroll L. Estes and Karen W. Linkins -- The Social Context of the New Genetics / Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Mary Boulton -- Cultural Variation in the Experience of Health and Illness / Ann McElroy and Mary Ann Jezewski -- Ethnography and Network Analysis: The Study of Social Context in Cultures and Societies / Robert T. Trotter, II --Personal Experience of Illness / Arthur Kleinman and Don Seeman -- Clinical Narratives and the Study of Contemporary Doctor-Patient Relationships / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Byron J. Good -- Accounting for Disease and Distress: Morals of the Normal and Abnormal / Margaret Lock -- Experiencing Chronic Illness / Kathy Charmaz -- The Global Emergence of Disability / Gary L. Albrecht and Lois M. Verbrugge -- Reproduction and Assisted Reproductive Technologies / Helena Ragoné and Sharla K. Willis -- Health-Care Utilization and Barriers to Health Care / Judith D. Kasper -- Concepts and Measurement of Health Status and Health-Related Quality of Life / Colleen A. McHorney -- Health Behavior: From Research to Community Practice / Thomas R. Prohaska, Karen E. Peters, and Jan S. Warren -- The Medical Profession: Knowledge, Power, and Autonomy / David Coburn and Evan Willis -- The Sociological Character of Health-Care Markets / Donald W. Light -- Medical Uncertainty Revisited / Renée C. Fox -- Alternative Health Practices and Systems / Sarah Cant and Ursula Sharma -- Comparative Health Systems: Emerging Convergences and Globalization / Linda M. Whiteford and Lois LaCivita Nixon -- The Patient's Perspective Regarding Appropriate Health Care / Angela Coulter and Ray Fitzpatrick -- Consumer and Community Participation: A Reassessment of Process, Impact, and Value / Deena White -- An Expanded Conceptual Framework of Equity: Implications for Assessing Health Policy / Lu Ann Aday -- Resources and Rationing: Managing Supply and Demand in Health Care / Stephen Harrison and Michael Moran -- Reconfiguring Health Policy: Simple Truths, Complex Solutions / Steven Lewis, Marcel Saulnier, and Marc Renaud.

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