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Ideas About Illness Uta Gerhardt

Ideas About Illness By Uta Gerhardt

Ideas About Illness by Uta Gerhardt

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A book on the history of ideas of medical sociology which is part of a series, designed to relate a diversity of empirical areas to central problems of sociological theory. This volume aims to provide an overview of sociology's conceptualization of illness.

Ideas About Illness Summary

Ideas About Illness: An Intellectual and Political History of Medical Sociology by Uta Gerhardt

A book on the history of ideas of medical sociology which is part of a series, designed to relate a diversity of empirical areas to central problems of sociological theory. This volume aims to provide an overview of sociology's conceptualization of illness.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The structural-functionalist paradigm: illness as social role and motivated deviance; Parsons' notion of illness; the capacity model; the deviancy model; structural-functionalist systems theory and two models of illness. Part 2 The interactionist paradigm: illness as professional construction; the interactionist notion of illness; the crisis model; the negotiation model; symbolic interactionism and the two models of illness. Part 3 The Phenomenological paradigm: illness as intersubjectively constructed reality; the phenomenological notion of illness; the trouble model; phenomenology and the issues of responsibility. Part 4 The conflict-theory paradigm: illness as failure of resources and ideological construct; the conflict notion of illness; the loss model; the domination-deprivation model; conflict theory and the two models of illness.

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GOR004826361
9780333248690
0333248694
Ideas About Illness: An Intellectual and Political History of Medical Sociology by Uta Gerhardt
Uta Gerhardt
New Studies in Sociology
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
19890716
425
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