Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing A Blueprint for the 21st Century
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 agenda...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2011, 2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011 |
| Series: | Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Rethinking Connecting Sociology’s Role in Health, Illness & Healing From Top to Bottom
- Preface
- Taking "the Promise" Seriously: Medical Sociology in a Time of Change
- Framing the Context and Dynamics of Health and Health Care: The NEM
- Connecting Communities
- Welfare States, and Citizen’s Welfare
- Taking Social Movements Seriously
- "Fundamental Causes" Expanded
- Of Politics and Health
- Community Systems Collide: the Case of the Legal and Mental Health System
- Connecting Health Systems and Health Care
- Medicalization Reconsidered: Understanding Consumer Response
- Conversations of Care
- Expanding Theories of the Doctor-Patient Relationship for Contemporary Landscape of Medicine
- Professions of Medicine
- The Power of Nurses
- The Health Care System
- The Organization of Care
- Health and Health Policy
- Systems of Healing
- Connecting Personal & Cultural Systems
- Taking Health Disparities to Task: The Socio-Cultural Framework
- TakingSocial Networks Seriously
- Rethinking Cultural Methods: "Hearsay Ethnography" and the Case of HIV
- Gender Revisited
- The Health Paradox of the Black Middle Class
- Reconsidering Stigma: Lessons from Sociology’s Legacy on Racial Prejudice and Discrimination
- Connecting the Illness Career
- Taking the Life Course Seriously
- Dynamics of Care
- Taking "History" and "history" Seriously
- Stories Matter
- Network Dynamic and Use of Services
- VI. Connecting the Individual and the Body
- Identity and Illness
- Taking Individuals Seriously: Developing Tailored Outcomes
- How Socio-Economic Status Works Through the Body to Shape Health and Illness
- Taking Biology Seriously
- Body Related Social Movements