The Sociology of Healthcare

Dedication Acknowledgements Thinking Sociologically about Health and Healthcare PART I: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE Introduction; The Political Economy of Health and Health Care; Ellen Annandale The Medicalisation of Reproduction; Pamela Abbott, Claire Wallace and Melissa Tyler The Social Role of Medicine; David Armstrong The Sociological Construction of Medicine; Paul Atkinson The Sociological Imagination; Charles Wright Mills PART II: MAKING SENSE OF HEALTH Introduction; Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches; Keith F. Punch Historical Data for Health Inequalities; Sara Mallinson, Jennie Popay, Eva Elliot, Sharon Bennett, Lisa Bostock, Anthony Gatrell, Carol Thomas and Gareth Williams Practice-based Evidence; Nick J. Fox 'Traditional' and 'Emancipatory' Research; Beth Humphries Women Respondents in Health Research; Helen Roberts Ethics and Ethics Committees; Carole Truman PART III: INEQUALITIES AND DIVERSITY IN HEALTH Introduction; The Politics of Victim Blaming; Robert Crawford The Determinants of Geographical Inequalities in Health; Heather Joshi, Richard D. Wiggins, Mel Bartley, Richard Mitchell, Simon Gleave and Kevin Lynch Children Reflecting on Health; Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Sarah Cunningham-Burley and John Davis Gender and Women's Health; Lesley Doyal Measuring and Understanding Ethnic Inequalities in Health; Mel Bartley PART IV: BODIES, MINDS AND EMOTIONS Introduction; The Body, Medicine and Death; Deborah Lupton 'Enhancing' the Body; Peter Conrad and Heather T. Jacobson Humour and Illness; Alison Chapple and Sue Ziebland Anorexia as Disability; Stephanie Tierney 'Dirty Work'; Ian Shaw Emotion Work in Midwifery; Billie Hunter PART V: POWER, PROFESSIONS AND PRACTICE Introduction; The Characteristics of a Profession; Eliot Friedson The Professionalisation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Merrijoy Kelner, Beverly Wellman, Heather Boon and Sandy Welsh The Feminisation of Dentistry; Tracey L. Adams Occupational Boundaries in the Operating Theatre; Stephen Timmons and Judith Tanner Choosing to be Childfree; Annily Campbell The Internet and the Doctor-Patient Relationship; Alex Broom.