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Sickness and death are unavoidable facts of life. However the likelihood of becoming ill or being disabled, and the experience and circumstances of dying, are not haphazard. Social relations play a major role in shaping health status, illness experience, responses to the sick and definitions of care. Health Matters presents key contemporary perspectives and empirical evidence in the sociology of health, focusing on inequalities in health and illness, health care and prevention. Contributors explore such topics as ethnicity and health, perspectives on the body, the study of health and emotions, death and dying, postmodernism and health, psychiatric disability and community-based care, health and the discourse of weight control, the health consumer's perspective, health status in developing economies, health care and the popular media, AIDS and gender, medical practice and medical authority, and inequalities in health care in late modern societies. The collection offers contributions from leading scholars from the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, including Robin Bunton, Valerie A Clifford, Nick Fox, Allan Kellehear, Deborah Lupton, Sarah Nettleton, Stephanie D Short, Catherine Waldby and Simon J Williams. It is invaluable reading for students and researchers interested in the sociology of health.

Table of Contents:
Preface Contribution PART 1 Sociology matters 1 Postmodernism and 'health' - Nick J Fox 2 Inequalities in late-modern health care - Robin Bunton 3 Consumer reconstructions of medical knowledge in Australia - Stephanie D Short 4 Emotions, equity and health - Simon J Williams 5 Evolutionary medicine - James S Chisholm PART 2 Experience matters 6 Health matters in developing economies - Lenore Manderson 7 Ethnicity, health and health care in Britain - Waqar Ahmad + Lesley Jones 8 Children's images of health - Gillian Bendelow + Pat Pridmore 9 Health and the discourse of weight control - Deirdre Davies 10 Containing the body - Wendy Seymour 11 A good enough death? - Beverley McNamara PART 3 Care matters 12 Medicine and health care in popular media - Deborah Lupton 13 Trust and medical authority - Ann Daniel 14 Uncertainty in medical deci

About the Author :
Alan Petersen is Senior Lecturer at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He is author of In a Critical Condition, co-author with Deborah Lupton of The New Public Health and co-editor with Robin Bunton of Foucault, Health and Medicine. Charles Waddell is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia, and Scholastic at the Pontificio Collegio Beda, Rome. Alan Petersen and Charles Waddell are co-editors of the predecessor to this book, Just Health.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781864485646
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Allen & Unwin
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Weight: 540 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1864485647
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Sociology of Illness, Prevention and Care
  • Width: 140 mm


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