The Sociology of Health and Healing: A Textbook

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
1 Introduction: Some Theoretical and Methodological Thoughts......Page 18
2 Health and Healing in Other Societies......Page 32
3 The Plurality of Healing Systems in Tudor and Stuart England......Page 50
4 Eighteenth-Century Foundations for the Development of Biomedicine......Page 65
5 Hospitals and Public Health: Control, Exploitation and the Development of Medical Knowledge......Page 78
6 Organizing the Division of Labour in Health Care......Page 96
7 Laying the Basis for the National Health Service......Page 116
8 The State and the Division of Health Labour: the National Health Service......Page 134
9 Introduction and Biological Base......Page 151
10 Concepts of Health and the Nature of Healing Knowledge (1): Lay Concepts of Health and Illness......Page 159
11 Concepts of Health and the Nature of Healing Knowledge (2): Alternative Healing Systems......Page 170
12 Concepts of Health and the Nature of Healing Knowledge (3): Biomedicine and Beyond......Page 177
13 Social Organization of Health Care and the Division of Paid Health Labour......Page 194
14 Unpaid Workers in the Division of Health Labour (1): the Patients......Page 211
15 Unpaid Workers in the Division of Health Labour (2): the Unpaid Carers......Page 223
16 Health Care and Late Twentieth-Century Capitalism......Page 231
17 Reproduction for the Twenty-First Century......Page 246
References and Bibliography......Page 278
Index......Page 304