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

Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forgotten Women in the Study of Gender and Health....Pages 19-34
Karl Marx and Frederich Engels: Capitalism, Health and the Healthcare Industry....Pages 35-58
Florence Nightingale: A Research-Based Approach to Health, Healthcare and Hospital Safety....Pages 59-74
Émile Durkheim: Social Order and Public Health....Pages 75-90
Émile Durkheim and Thomas Luckmann: Religion, Post-Christian Spirituality and Mental Health....Pages 91-106
George Herbert Mead: Meanings and Selves in Illness....Pages 107-123
Max Weber: Bureaucracy, Formal Rationality and the Modern Hospital....Pages 124-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Ludwik Fleck: Thought Collectives and the Sociology of Medical Knowledge....Pages 141-157
Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman: Civilised-Dramaturgical Bodies, Social Status and Health Inequalities....Pages 158-173
Alfred Schutz: The Co-construction of Meaning within Professional-Patient Interaction....Pages 174-190
Antonio Gramsci and Pierre Bourdieu: ‘Whiteness’ and Indigenous Healthcare....Pages 191-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Talcott Parsons: His Legacy and the Sociology of Health and Illness....Pages 207-221
Robert Merton: Occupational Roles, Social Status and Health Inequalities....Pages 222-235
George Libman Engel: The Biopsychosocial Model and the Construction of Medical Practice....Pages 236-250
Harold Garfinkel: Lessons on Emergent Behaviours in Complex Organisations....Pages 251-261
Margaret Stacey: The Sociology of Health and Healing....Pages 262-272
Erving Goffman: The Moral Career of Stigma and Mental Illness....Pages 273-286
Eliot Freidson: Sociological Narratives of Professionalism and Modern Medicine....Pages 287-305
Ivan Illich and Irving Kenneth Zola: Disabling Médicalisation....Pages 306-323
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Michel Foucault: Governmentality Health Policy and the Governance of Childhood Obesity....Pages 324-339
Niklas Luhmann: Social Systems Theory and the Translation of Public Health Research....Pages 340-354
Jürgen Habermas: Health and Healing Across the Lifeworld-System Divide....Pages 355-369
Pierre Bourdieu: Health Lifestyles, the Family and Social Class....Pages 370-385
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
Colin Leys and Colin Hay: Market-Driven Politics and the Depoliticisation of Healthcare....Pages 389-404
Vicente Navarro: Marxism, Medical Dominance, Healthcare and Health....Pages 405-423
Anthony Giddens: Structuration, Drug Use, Food Choice and Long-Term Illness....Pages 424-438
Anthony Giddens: The Reflexive Self and the Consumption of Alternative Medicine....Pages 439-454
Anthony Giddens: Risk, Globalisation and Indigenous Public Health....Pages 455-470
William C Cockerham: The Contemporary Sociology of Health Lifestyles....Pages 471-487
George Ritzer: Rationalisation, Consumerism and the McDonaldisation of Surgery....Pages 488-503
Julia Kristeva: Abjection, Embodiment and Boundaries....Pages 504-519
Magali Sarfatti Larson and Anne Witz: Professional Projects, Class and Gender....Pages 520-534
Raewyn Connell: Hegemonic Masculinities, Gender and Male Health....Pages 535-549
Raewyn Connell: Gender, Health and Healthcare....Pages 550-566
Donna Haraway: The Digital Cyborg Assemblage and the New Digital Health Technologies....Pages 567-581
Mike Bury: Biographical Disruption and Long-Term and Other Health Conditions....Pages 582-598
Bryan S. Turner: Bringing Bodies and Citizenship into the Discussion of Disability....Pages 599-614
Peter Conrad: The Médicalisation of Society....Pages 615-627
Eva Feder Kittay: Dependency Work and the Social Division of Care....Pages 628-643
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
Gøsta Esping-Andersen: Welfare Regimes and Social Inequalities in Health....Pages 644-659
Bruno Latour: From Acting at a Distance Towards Matters of Concern in Patient Safety....Pages 660-674
Paul Farmer: Structural Violence and the Embodiment of Inequality....Pages 675-690
Back Matter....Pages 691-710