Author: Kevin WhitePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415252027
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Early Sociology of Health and Illness
Author: Kevin WhitePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415252027
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Early Sociology of Health and Illness: Hygiene, diseases and morality of occupations
Author: Kevin WhitePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415252072
Category : Industrial hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Early Sociology of Health and Illness: Essays on state medicine
Author: Kevin WhitePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415252034
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness
Author: Dr Kevin WhitePublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1847877133
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that disease is socially produced and distributed. Becoming sick and unhealthy is not the result of individual misfortune or an accident of nature. It is a consequence of the social, political and economic organization of society. In developing this thesis, the author systematically introduces students to the major sociological explanations of the role and functions of medical explanations of disease. The book situates the student securely in the literature and provides a guide to the strengths and weaknesses of the major sociological approaches. It draws out the essential features of the major sociological contributions and elucidates how an appreciation of the dynamics of class, gender, ethnicity and the sociology of knowledge challenges medical power.
The Early Sociology of Health and Illness: Public health in relation to air and water
Author: Kevin WhitePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415252065
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Early Sociology of Health and Illness
Author: Kevin WhitePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415252027
Category : Bacterial diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Early Sociology of Health and Illness: Essays on state medicine
Author: Kevin WhitePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415252034
Category : National health services
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing
Author: Bernice A. PescosolidoPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441972617
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry. The editors provide a blueprint for guiding research and teaching agendas for the first quarter of the 21st century. In a series of essays, this volume offers a systematic view of the critical questions that face our understanding of the role of social forces in health, illness and healing. It also provides an overall theoretical framework and asks medical sociologists to consider the implications of taking on new directions and approaches. Such issues may include the importance of multiple levels of influences, the utility of dynamic, life course approaches, the role of culture, the impact of social networks, the importance of fundamental causes approaches, and the influences of state structures and policy making.
The Early Sociology of Health and Illness: Medical Police : or The causes of diseases with the means of prevention, part 1
Author: Kevin WhitePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415252041
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Medical Sociology in Africa
Author: Jimoh AmzatPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319039865
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive discussion of classical ideas, core topics, currents and detailed theoretical underpinnings in medical sociology. It is a globally renowned source and reference for those interested in social dimensions of health and illness. The presentation is enriched with explanatory and illustrative styles. The design and illustration of details will shift the minds of the readers from mere classroom discourse to societal context (the space of health issues), to consider the implications of those ideas in a way that could guide health interventions. The elemental strengths are the sociological illustrations from African context, rooted in deep cultural interpretations necessitated because Africa bears a greater brunt of health problems. More so, the classical and current epistemological and theoretical discourse presented in this book are indicative of core themes in medical sociology in particular, but cut across a multidisciplinary realm including health social sciences (e.g., medical anthropology, health psychology, medical demography, medical geography and health economics) and health studies (medicine, public health, epidemiology, bioethics and medical humanities) in general. Therefore, apart from the book’s relevance as a teaching text of medical sociology for academics, it is also meant for students at various levels and all health professionals who require a deeper understanding of social dimensions of health and illness (with illustrations from the African context) and sociological contributions to health studies in general.