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Outline of Sociology as Applied to Medicine, 4Ed David Armstrong

Outline of Sociology as Applied to Medicine, 4Ed By David Armstrong

Outline of Sociology as Applied to Medicine, 4Ed by David Armstrong

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As more medical care becomes community-based, so it becomes more important for medical practitioners to have a firm understanding of the relationship between health care and society. This book is designed to help in understanding the origins, nature and context of illness in society.

Outline of Sociology as Applied to Medicine, 4Ed Summary

Outline of Sociology as Applied to Medicine, 4Ed by David Armstrong

As more medical care becomes community-based, so it becomes more important for medical practitioners to have a firm understanding of the relationship between health care and the society in which it occurs.



Now in its fourth edition, the 'Outline of Sociology as Applied to Medicine' has established itself as a key introductory text in its field. Thoroughly updated and brought into line with current philosophies of healthcare, this new edition will help in



understanding the origins, nature and context of illness in society. Primarily intended for medical students, this fourth edition will also be very useful for nursing and other health care students.

Outline of Sociology as Applied to Medicine, 4Ed Reviews

'..the book is a tried and tested classic of its kind and the fourth edition gives no cause for it to be unseated from that position.'
Social Sciences in Health - Int. Jnl, January 1996

Table of Contents

Introduction
Going to the doctor: the experience of symptoms, illness behaviour, importance of illness behaviour for the doctor, illness behaviour and the medical model
Measuring health and illness: mortality, morbidity prevalence studies, sickness absence rates, caseload, measures of functioning, self-report measures, subjective health measures, quality of life measures
Social causes of illness: causal models, establishing a causal relationship, social factors, social integration, social support, life events
Labelling behaviour: primary deviance, secondary deviance, stigma, disability and handicap, labelling and psychiatric disease
Social patterns of illness 1: explaining illness patterns, historical changes, geography, occupation, gender, ethnicity, unemployment
Social patterns of illness 2: age, social class
Coping with illness: managing labels, coping with chronic illness, careers
Models of illness: exploring abdominal pain, symptoms and pathology, biographical medicine, alternative models of illness, models of the doctor-patient relationship
Types of health care: self-care, family care, community care, self-help groups, professional care
Clinical autonomy: controlling information, controlling costs, paying the doctor, evaluating the doctors' decisions
Delivering health care: allocating scarce resources, the market for health care in the USA, government provision of health care in the UK, towards a National Health Service
Evaluating health care: is the health care system effective
efficient? Does the health care system meet the 'real' needs of its consumers? Is the health care system fair? Is the health care system iatrogenic?
The social basis of disease: defining disease, normality in medicine, the biological basis of disease
The social role of medicine: illness as a deviance, the doctor as agent of social control, explaining the place of medicine
Bibliography
Index

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GOR002331881
9780750619295
0750619295
Outline of Sociology as Applied to Medicine, 4Ed by David Armstrong
David Armstrong
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Elsevier Health Sciences
1994-12-09
164
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