Sociology of Health and Health Care Steve Taylor

Sociology of Health and Health Care by Steve Taylor

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This textbook explains the complexities of sociological approaches to health. It is structured around four themes: sociology, health, illness and health care. New sections to this edition includes linking recent developments in health care to wider social changes and health promotion.

Sociology of Health and Health Care by Steve Taylor

This introductory textbook explains the complexities of sociological approaches to health. It is structured around four themes: sociology, health, illness and health care. The book offers an overview of each subject area, and provides summaries of key topics, enabling the student to build up a sound understanding of the significance of sociology for health care. This edition has been substantially revised and updated by contributors who are teachers in the fields of sociology and nursing. It has been expanded to include more detail on sociological theory, research methods, and new developments in the sociology of health and the organization of health care. New sections include linking recent developments in health care to wider social changes, health promotion, the family and social support, hospitalization, euthanasia and consumerism and managerialism in health care.

Part 1 Introduction - sociology, health and health care: what is sociology?; principles of social research; doing social research; theoretical division in sociology; sociology applied to health and health care. Part 2 Health and health care in modern Britain: Britain as an industrial society; state involvement in health care; pressures on the NHS; towards health care 2000. Part 3 Health, illness and social structure: approaches to health and health care; the bio-medical model of health; infectious disease - the role of medicine; over-medication and iatrogenesis; the behavioural model of health; social aspects of health; the care of the sick. Part 4 Inequalities and differences in health: class inequalities; ethnic divisions; gender differences; divisions of age. Part 5 Social integration, social support and health: stress and health; life change and anomie; social integration; integration and health; social support. Part 5 Experiences of health and illness: social definitions of health and illness; health, disease and illness; health and illness behaviour; illness and identity; the sick role; patients in hospital; nurse-patient relationships. Part 6 Chronic illness and physical disability: impairment, disability and handicap; chronic illness and disability in British society; coping with chronic illness and disability; factors influencing the experience of physical disability; the role of others. Part 7 Mental disorders: disease of behaviour?; social aspects of mental disorder; experience of mental illness; hospital care; community care; suicide and self-harm; care or control?. Part 8 Dying, death and bereavement: death in modern Britain; the main settings of terminal care; coping with dying and bereavement; communication and disclosure; euthanasia. Part 9 Caring for the sick; family relationships, health status and health care; developments in family relationships; private lives and health issues; families and lay referral; families and lay care; social policy and family surveillance. Part 10 Recent trends in health policy - consumerism and managerialism; health policy; purchasers and providers; consumerism in health care; management in health care. Part 11 Nurses and nursing: the origins of modern nursing; social divisions in modern nursing; divisions of nursing labour; nursing in the community; power, medicine and professionalism.

Sociology of Health and Health Care Steve Taylor

Sociology of Health and Health Care by Steve Taylor

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