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Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine by Ray Fitzpatrick (1999, Hardcover)

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PublisherSAGE Publications, The Limited

ISBN-100761956174

ISBN-139780761956174

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Number of Pages546 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHandbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine

Publication Year1999

SubjectSociology / General, Disease & Health Issues

TypeTextbook

AuthorRay Fitzpatrick

Subject AreaSocial Science

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight43.1 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

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Reviews''The collection will offer a unique range of work, both in terms of topics and of theoretical perspectives, written by leading scholars from around the world. It will be an essential resource for teaching and research' - Mel Bartley, Principal Research Fellow, University College, London 'This impressive collection gives a unique insight into current debates in the social sciences in the broad domain of health, illness and health care. By bringing together the perspectives of leading North American, European and Australasian scholars, focusing on social and cultural issues, the text provides the reader with a rich tapestry of stimulating ideas and analyses of great value' - Ian Robinson, Director for the Study of Health, Sickness and Disablement, Brunel University 'Society has growing expectations in terms of health. The editors and contributors to this handbook are to be congratulated on providing an essential route-map for the social sciences who will play a central role in future debates on health and health care' - Denny Vågerö, Professor of Medical Sociology, Stockholm University, "The Handbook of Social Studies in Health & Medicine is a must for the practitioner and teacher of social science of health and medical care. To read it is to be updated and upgraded concerning theory, empirical findings and policy implications. To have it on the shelf means ready reference to current comprehensive thinking and applications. The Handbook can also be readily adopted as a basic text for upper division and graduate classes in medical sociology and anthropology as well as for social science classes in public health, nursing, medicine, allied health sciences or health care policy and management." , " The Handbook of Social Studies in Health & Medicine is a must for the practitioner and teacher of social science of health and medical care. To read it is to be updated and upgraded concerning theory, empirical findings and policy implications. To have it on the shelf means ready reference to current comprehensive thinking and applications. The Handbook can also be readily adopted as a basic text for upper division and graduate classes in medical sociology and anthropology as well as for social science classes in public health, nursing, medicine, allied health sciences or health care policy and management." , The Handbook of Social Studies in Health & Medicine is a must for the practitioner and teacher of social science of health and medical care. To read it is to be updated and upgraded concerning theory, empirical findings and policy implications. To have it on the shelf means ready reference to current comprehensive thinking and applications. The Handbook can also be readily adopted as a basic text for upper division and graduate classes in medical sociology and anthropology as well as for social science classes in public health, nursing, medicine, allied health sciences or health care policy and management., ''The collection will offer a unique range of work, both in terms of topics and of theoretical perspectives, written by leading scholars from around the world. It will be an essential resource for teaching and research' - Mel Bartley, Principal Research Fellow, University College, London 'This impressive collection gives a unique insight into current debates in the social sciences in the broad domain of health, illness and health care. By bringing together the perspectives of leading North American, European and Australasian scholars, focusing on social and cultural issues, the text provides the reader with a rich tapestry of stimulating ideas and analyses of great value' - Ian Robinson, Director for the Study of Health, Sickness and Disablement, Brunel University 'Society has growing expectations in terms of health. The editors and contributors to this handbook are to be congratulated on providing an essential route-map for the social sciences who will play a central role in future debates on health and health care' - Denny V ger , Professor of Medical Sociology, Stockholm University, 'The collection will offer a unique range of work, both in terms of topics and of theoretical perspectives, written by leading scholars from around the world. It will be an essential resource for teaching and research - Mel Bartley, Principal Research Fellow, University College, London 'This impressive collection gives a unique insight into current debates in the social sciences in the broad domain of health, illness and health care. By bringing together the perspectives of leading North American, European and Australasian scholars, focusing on social and cultural issues, the text provides the reader with a rich tapestry of stimulating ideas and analyses of great value - Ian Robinson, Director for the Study of Health, Sickness and Disablement, Brunel University 'Society has growing expectations in terms of health. The editors and contributors to this handbook are to be congratulated on providing an essential route-map for the social sciences who will play a central role in future debates on health and health care - Denny Vågerö, Professor of Medical Sociology, Stockholm University, ''The collection will offer a unique range of work, both in terms of topics and of theoretical perspectives, written by leading scholars from around the world. It will be an essential resource for teaching and research' - Mel Bartley, Principal Research Fellow, University College, London'This impressive collection gives a unique insight into current debates in the social sciences in the broad domain of health, illness and health care. By bringing together the perspectives of leading North American, European and Australasian scholars, focusing on social and cultural issues, the text provides the reader with a rich tapestry of stimulating ideas and analyses of great value' - Ian Robinson, Director for the Study of Health, Sickness and Disablement, Brunel University'Society has growing expectations in terms of health. The editors and contributors to this handbook are to be congratulated on providing an essential route-map for the social sciences who will play a central role in future debates on health and health care' - Denny Vågerö, Professor of Medical Sociology, Stockholm University, ''The collection will offer a unique range of work, both in terms of topics and of theoretical perspectives, written by leading scholars from around the world. It will be an essential resource for teaching and research' - Mel Bartley, Principal Research Fellow, University College, London 'This impressive collection gives a unique insight into current debates in the social sciences in the broad domain of health, illness and health care. By bringing together the perspectives of leading North American, European and Australasian scholars, focusing on social and cultural issues, the text provides the reader with a rich tapestry of stimulating ideas and analyses of great value' - Ian Robinson, Director for the Study of Health, Sickness and Disablement, Brunel University 'Society has growing expectations in terms of health. The editors and contributors to this handbook are to be congratulated on providing an essential route-map for the social sciences who will play a central role in future debates on health and health care' - Denny Vger, Professor of Medical Sociology, Stockholm University

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Table Of ContentIntroduction - Gary L Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick and Susan C ScrimshawPART ONE: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FRAMEWORKS OF ANALYSISThe History of the Changing Concepts of Health and Illness - Bryan S TurnerOutline of a General Model of Illness CategoriesSocial Theorizing about Health and Illness - David ArmstrongClassification and Process in Sociomedical Understanding - Robert A Rubinstein, Susan C Scrimshaw and Suzanne E MorriseyTowards a Multilevel View of Sociomedical MethodologyThe Social Construction of Medicine and the Body - Deborah LuptonA Taxonomy of Research Concerned with Place and Health - Ralph Catalano and Kate E PickettThe Globalization of Health and Disease - Emily C Zielinski Guti[ac]errez and Carl KendallThe Health Transition and Global ChangeThe Social Causation of Health and Illness - Johannes SiegristSocioeconomic Inequalities in Health - Stephanie A Robert and James S HouseIntegrating Individual-, Community-, and Societal-Level Theory and ResearchGender and Health - Sandra D Lane and Donald A CibulaCritical Perspectives on Health and Aging - Carroll L Estes and Karen W LinkinsThe Social Context of the New Genetics - Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Mary BoultonPART TWO: THE EXPERIENCE OF HEALTH AND ILLNESSCultural Variation in the Experience of Health and Illness - Ann McElroy and Mary Ann JezewskiEthnography and Network Analysis - Robert T Trotter IIThe Study of Social Context in Cultures and SocietiesPersonal Experience of Illness - Arthur Kleinman and Don SeemanClinical Narratives and the Study of Contemporary Doctor-Patient Relationships - Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Byron J GoodAccounting for Disease and Distress - Margaret LockMorals of the Normal and AbnormalExperiencing Chronic Illness - Kathy CharmazThe Global Emergence of Disability - Gary L Albrecht and Lois M VerbruggeReproduction and Assisted Reproductive Technologies - Hel[ac]ena Ragon[ac]e and Sharla K WillisHealth-Care Utilization and Barriers to Health Care - Judith D KasperConcepts and Measurement of Health Status and Health-Related Quality of Life - Colleen A McHorneyHealth Behavior - Thomas R Prohaska, Karen E Peters and Jan S WarrenFrom Research to Community PracticePART THREE: HEALTH-CARE SYSTEMS AND PRACTICESThe Medical Profession - David Coburn and Evan WillisKnowledge, Power, and AutonomyThe Sociological Character of Health-Care Markets - Donald W LightMedical Uncertainty Revisited - Ren[ac]ee C FoxAlternative Health Practices and Systems - Sarah Cant and Ursula SharmaComparative Health Sytems - Linda M Whiteford and Lois LaCivita NixonEmerging Convergences and GlobalizationThe Patients Perspective Regarding Appropriate Health Care - Angela Coulter and Ray FitzpatrickConsumer and Community Participation - Deena WhiteA Reassessment of Process, Impact and ValueAn Expanded Conceptual Framework of Equity - Lu Ann AdayImplications for Assessing Health PolicyResources and Rationing - Stephen Harrison and Michael MoranManaging Supply and Demand in Health CareReconfiguring Health Policy - Steven Lewis, Marcel Saulnier and Marc RenaudSimple Truths, Complex Solutions

Synopsis"The collection will offer a unique range of work, both in terms of topics and of theoretical perspectives, written by leading scholars from around the world. It will be an essential resource for teaching and research." "Ive wanted a handbook like this on my desk for a long time -- one with broad coverage and extensive bibliographies. This is one of those books that you point to when a graduate student asks: How do I get started in ...? The coverage of the 33 chapters is really impressive: from an exposition on the use of ethnographic case studies to a discussion of the globalization of health care; from a discussion of how people experience illness to a discussion of how best to measure health status and quality of life variable" --H. Russell Bernard, University of Florida The FIRST International and INTERDISCIPLINARY Handbook About Health and Medicine Is HERE! No Other Volume in the Marketplace Has the Range, Depth and Relevance of this Handbook Three sections contain specially commissioned chapters designed to examine the vital conceptual, methodological, practice and policy issues. * Youll receive not only a complete survey of social science, health and medicine in one volume, but also an authoritative guide to methodologies, key concepts, central theoretical traditions and an agenda for future research and practice. * The Handbook offers researchers and scholars the best guide to what the leading figures in the field are thinking and doing. It also pinpoints the focal issues of research and debate in one volume. * The Handbook answers the need, expressed by social scientists and medical practitioners, for an authoritative, inter-disciplinary study which demonstrates the contribution and promise of social science disciplines in the crucial and rapidly changing field of health and medicine., This is the first international and inter-disciplinary social science Handbook on health and medicine. Five years in the making, and building on the insights and advice of an international editorial board, the book brings together world-class figures to provide an indispensable, comprehensive resource book on social science, health and medicine. Pinpointing the focal issues of research and debate in one volume, the material is organized into three sections: social and cultural frameworks of analysis; the experience of health and illness; and health care systems and practices. Each section consists of specially commissioned chapters designed to examine the vital conceptual and methodological practice and policy issues. Readers recei, This book brings together world-class figures to provide an indispensable, comprehensive resource book on social science, health and medicine.

LC Classification NumberMLCM 2002/02634