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Sixth Edition
By
Graham Scambler, BSc, PhD, Professor of Medical Sociology; Director, Centre for Sociological Theory & Research on Health, Research Department of Infection
and Population Health, University College London, London, UK
Description
This introduction to medical sociology is for medical students and health professionals in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Audience
Medical students, nursing students, other health professionals, sociology students.
Contents
Part 1: Social Aspects of disease.
Society and changing patterns of disease. Social determinants of health and disease.
Part
2: Social factors in Medical Practice.
Health and illness behaviour. The doctor-patient relationship. Hospitals and patient
care. Living with chronic illness. Dying, death and bereavement.
Part 3: Social structure and Health.
Inequality
and social class. Women and health. The health and health care of ethnic minority groups. Older people, health care and society.
Part 4: The Social Process of Defining disease.
The limits and boundaries of medical knowledge. Deviance, sick
role and stigma.
Part 5: Organisation of Health Services.
Origins and development of the National Health Service.
Health professions. Community care and informal caring. Health promotion and the New Public Health. Measuring health outcomes. Organizing
and funding health care.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 344 pages, publication date: JUN-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2901-1
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2901-7
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 12 Nov 2009
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