The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine

This wide-reaching handbook offers a new perspective on the sociology of health, illness and medicine by stressing the importance of social theory. Examining a range of classic and contemporary female and male theorists from across the globe, it explores various issues including chronic illness, counselling and the rising problems of obesity.

Table of Contents:
1. The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks ; Fran Collyer and Graham Scambler PART I: THE 19TH CENTURY THEORISTS 2. Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forgotten Women in the Study of Gender and Health?; Ellen Annandale 3. Karl Marx and Frederich Engels: Capitalism, Health and the Healthcare Industry; Fran Collyer 4. Florence Nightingale: A Research-Based Approach to Health, Healthcare and Hospital Safety; Lynn McDonald 5. Émile Durkheim: Social Order and Public Health; Kevin Dew 6. Émile Durkheim and Thomas Luckmann: Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health; Rosemary Aird 7. George Herbert Mead: Meanings and Selves in Illness; Linda Liska Belgrave and Kathy Charmaz 8. Max Weber: Bureaucracy, Formal Rationality and the Modern Hospital; William C Cockerham PART II: THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY THEORISTS 9. Ludwik Fleck: Thought Collectives and the Sociology of Medical Knowledge; Kevin White 10. Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman: Civilised-Dramaturgical Bodies, Social Status and Health Inequalities; Peter Freund 11. Alfred Schutz: The Co-Construction of Meaning Within Professional-Patient Interaction; Patrick Brown 12. Antonio Gramsci and Pierre Bourdieu: 'Whiteness' and Indigenous Healthcare; Angela Durey PART III: THE MID 20TH CENTURY THEORISTS 13. Talcott Parsons: His Legacy and the Sociology of Health and Illness; Evan Willis 14. Robert Merton: Occupational Roles, Social Status and Health Inequalities; Johannes Siegrist 15. George Libman Engel: The Biopsychosocial Model and the Construction of Medical Practice; Marilys Guillemin and Emma Barnard 16. Harold Garfinkel: Lessons on Emergent Behaviours in Complex Organisations; Peter Nugus and Jeffrey Braithwaite 17. Meg Stacey: The Sociology of Health and Healing; Hannah Bradby 18. Erving Goffman: The Moral Career of Stigma and Mental Illness; Bernice Pescosolido 19. Eliot Freidson: Sociological Narratives of Professionalism and Modern Medicine;Michael Calnan 20. Ivan Illich and Irving Kenneth Zola: Disabling Medicalisation; Joseph E Davis 21. Michel Foucault: Governmentality, Health Policy and the Governance of Childhood Obesity; Julie Henderson 22. Niklas Luhmann: Social Systems Theory and the Translation of Public Health Research; Samantha Meyer, Barry Gibson and Paul Ward 23. Jürgen Habermas: Health and Healing Across the Lifeworld-System Divide; Graham Scambler 24. Pierre Bourdieu: Health Lifestyles, the Family and Social Class; Kate Huppatz PART IV: THE LATE 20TH CENTURY AND THEORISTS OF THE PRESENT 25. Colin Leys and Colin Hay: Market-Driven Politics and the Depoliticisation of Healthcare; Heather Whiteside 26. Vicente Navarro: Marxism, Medical Dominance, Healthcare and Health; David Coburn 27. Anthony Giddens: Structuration, Drug Use, Food Choice and Long-Term Illness; Jonathan Gabe and Joana Almeida 28. Anthony Giddens: The Reflexive Self and the Consumption of Alternative Medicine; Katie Hughes 29. Anthony Giddens: Risk, Globalisation and Indigenous Public Health; Eileen Willis and Meryl Pearce 30. William C Cockerham: The Sociology of Health Lifestyles; Brian Hinote 31. George Ritzer: Rationalisation, Consumerism and the McDonaldisation of Surgery; Justin Waring and Simon Bishop 32. Julia Kristeva: Abjection, Embodiment and Boundaries; Trudy Rudge 33. Magali Sarfatti-Larson and Anne Witz: Professional Projects, Class and Gender; Ivy Bourgeault 34. Raewyn Connell: Hegemonic Masculinities, Gender and Male Health; John Scott 35. Raewyn Connell: Gender, Health and Healthcare; Maree Herrett and Toni Schofield 36. Donna Haraway: The Digital Cyborg Assemblage and the New Digital Health Technologies; Deborah Lupton 37. Mike Bury: Biographical Disruption and Long-Term and Other Health Conditions; Louise Locock and Sue Ziebland 38. Bryan S Turner: Bringing Bodies and Citizenship Into the Discussion of Disability; Gary L Albrecht 39. Peter Conrad: The Medicalisation of Society; Simon Williams andJonathan Gabe 40. Eva Feder Kittay: Dependency Work and the Social Division of Care; Michael Fine 41. Gøsta Esping-Andersen: Welfare Regimes and Social Inequalities in Health; Mikael Rostila 42. Bruno Latour: From Acting at a Distance Towards Matters of Concern in Patient Safety; Su-yin Hor and Rick Iedema 43. Paul Farmer: Structural Violence and the Embodiment of Inequality; Fernando De Maio

About the Author :
Rosemary Aird, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Gary L Albrecht, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Joana Almeida, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ellen Annandale, University of York, UK Emma Barnard, University of Melbourne, Australia Linda Belgrave, University of Miami, USA Simon Bishop, Nottingham University Business School, UK Hannah Bradby, University of Warwick, UK Jeffrey Braithwaite, University of New South Wales, Australia Patrick Brown, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ivy Bourgeault, The University of Ottawa, Canada Michael Calnan, University of Kent, UK Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University, USA David Coburn, University of Toronto, Canada William C. Cockerham, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Fran Collyer, University of Sydney, Australia Joseph E. Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, USA Fernando De Maio, DePaul University, USA Kevin Dew, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Angela Durey, Curtin University, Australia Michael Fine, Macquarie University, Australia Peter Freund, Montclair State University, USA Jonathan Gabe, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barry Gibson, University of Sheffield, UK Marilys Guillemin, University of Melbourne, Australia Julie Henderson, Flinders University, Australia Maree Herrett, Independent Scholar, Australia Brian Hinote, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Suy-in Hor, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Katie Hughes,Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia Rick Iedema, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Louise Locock, University of Oxford, UK Deborah Lupton, University of Canberra, Australia Lynn McDonald, University of Guelph, Canada Samantha Meyer, University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Nugus, McGill University, Canada Meryl Pearce, James Cook University, Australia Bernice A. Pescosolido, Indiana University, USA Mikael Rostila, Stockholm University, Sweden Trudy Rudge, University of Sydney, Australia Graham Scambler, University College London, UK Toni Schofield, University of Sydney, Australia John Scott, University of New England, Australia Johannes Siegrist, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany Paul Ward, Flinders University, Australia Justin Waring, University of Warwick, UK Kevin White, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australia Heather Whiteside, Simon Fraser University, Canada Simon J. Williams, University of Warwick, UK Eileen Willis, Flinders University, Australia Evan Willis, Independent Scholar, Australia Sue Ziebland, University of Oxford, UK