Medicine, Health and Society (ePub)
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Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, and applying the pragmatic demands of policy, this timely book explores society's response to key issues such as race, gender and identity to explain the relationship between sociology, medicine and medical sociology.
Each chapter includes an authoritative introduction to pertinent areas of debate, a clear summary of key issues and themes and dedicated bibliography.
Chapters include:
• social theory and medical sociology
• health inequalities
• bodies, pain and suffering
• personal, local and global.
Brimming with fresh interpretations and critical insights this book will contribute to illuminating the practical realities of medical sociology.
This exciting text will be of interest to students of sociology of health and illness, medical sociology, and sociology of the body.
Hannah Bradby has a visiting fellowship at the Department of Primary Care and Health Sciences, King's College London. She is monograph series editor for the journal Sociology of Health and Illness and co-edits the multi-disciplinary journal Ethnicity and Health.
ethnicity and racism intervene in the social relations of health has been
published in various journals including ‘Social Science and Medicine’ and
‘Sociological Research Online’. She
co-edits the journal ‘Ethnicity and Health’ and is the ‘Sociology of Health and
Illness’ monograph series editor.
Hannah has taught both medics and
sociologists at the University of Warwick since 2000, employing various
representations of health, illness and suffering including written (memoire,
letters, reportage, fiction, clinical notes, empirical research) and spoken
forms (evidence from clinicians, patients and former patients, in various
languages, and sometimes mediated by trained interpreters). She has worked on
the core medical school curriculum and special study modules and has
collaborated with students to publish books of their own sociological work,
both written and photographic.
Building on observations by the late Meg
Stacey (the first female professor at the University of Warwick) on medical
sociology’s lack of attention to war as a public health problem Hannah
co-edited (with Gillian Hundt) a collection entitled ‘Global Perspectives on
War, Gender and Health’ (2010, Avebury). ‘Medical Sociology: An introduction’
(2009, Sage) seeks to interpret sociological criticism of medicine and insights
into the experience of illness for medical students.
- Autor: Hannah Bradby
- 2012, 200 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Sage Publications
- ISBN-10: 1446292339
- ISBN-13: 9781446292334
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.02.2012
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