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

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks
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    Chapter 2 Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forgotten Women in the Study of Gender and Health
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    Chapter 3 Karl Marx and Frederich Engels: Capitalism, Health and the Healthcare Industry
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    Chapter 4 Florence Nightingale: A Research-Based Approach to Health, Healthcare and Hospital Safety
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    Chapter 5 Émile Durkheim: Social Order and Public Health
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    Chapter 6 Émile Durkheim and Thomas Luckmann: Religion, Post-Christian Spirituality and Mental Health
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    Chapter 7 George Herbert Mead: Meanings and Selves in Illness
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    Chapter 8 Max Weber: Bureaucracy, Formal Rationality and the Modern Hospital
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    Chapter 9 Ludwik Fleck: Thought Collectives and the Sociology of Medical Knowledge
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    Chapter 10 Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman: Civilised-Dramaturgical Bodies, Social Status and Health Inequalities
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    Chapter 11 Alfred Schutz: The Co-construction of Meaning within Professional-Patient Interaction
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    Chapter 12 Antonio Gramsci and Pierre Bourdieu: ‘Whiteness’ and Indigenous Healthcare
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    Chapter 13 Talcott Parsons: His Legacy and the Sociology of Health and Illness
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    Chapter 14 Robert Merton: Occupational Roles, Social Status and Health Inequalities
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    Chapter 15 George Libman Engel: The Biopsychosocial Model and the Construction of Medical Practice
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    Chapter 16 Harold Garfinkel: Lessons on Emergent Behaviours in Complex Organisations
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    Chapter 17 Margaret Stacey: The Sociology of Health and Healing
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    Chapter 18 Erving Goffman: The Moral Career of Stigma and Mental Illness
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    Chapter 19 Eliot Freidson: Sociological Narratives of Professionalism and Modern Medicine
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    Chapter 20 Ivan Illich and Irving Kenneth Zola: Disabling Médicalisation
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    Chapter 21 Michel Foucault: Governmentality Health Policy and the Governance of Childhood Obesity
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    Chapter 22 Niklas Luhmann: Social Systems Theory and the Translation of Public Health Research
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    Chapter 23 Jürgen Habermas: Health and Healing Across the Lifeworld-System Divide
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    Chapter 24 Pierre Bourdieu: Health Lifestyles, the Family and Social Class
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    Chapter 25 Colin Leys and Colin Hay: Market-Driven Politics and the Depoliticisation of Healthcare
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    Chapter 26 Vicente Navarro: Marxism, Medical Dominance, Healthcare and Health
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    Chapter 27 Anthony Giddens: Structuration, Drug Use, Food Choice and Long-Term Illness
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    Chapter 28 Anthony Giddens: The Reflexive Self and the Consumption of Alternative Medicine
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    Chapter 29 Anthony Giddens: Risk, Globalisation and Indigenous Public Health
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    Chapter 30 William C Cockerham: The Contemporary Sociology of Health Lifestyles
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    Chapter 31 George Ritzer: Rationalisation, Consumerism and the McDonaldisation of Surgery
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    Chapter 32 Julia Kristeva: Abjection, Embodiment and Boundaries
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    Chapter 33 Magali Sarfatti Larson and Anne Witz: Professional Projects, Class and Gender
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    Chapter 34 Raewyn Connell: Hegemonic Masculinities, Gender and Male Health
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    Chapter 35 Raewyn Connell: Gender, Health and Healthcare
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    Chapter 36 Donna Haraway: The Digital Cyborg Assemblage and the New Digital Health Technologies
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    Chapter 37 Mike Bury: Biographical Disruption and Long-Term and Other Health Conditions
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    Chapter 38 Bryan S. Turner: Bringing Bodies and Citizenship into the Discussion of Disability
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    Chapter 39 Peter Conrad: The Médicalisation of Society
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    Chapter 40 Eva Feder Kittay: Dependency Work and the Social Division of Care
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    Chapter 41 Gøsta Esping-Andersen: Welfare Regimes and Social Inequalities in Health
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    Chapter 42 Bruno Latour: From Acting at a Distance Towards Matters of Concern in Patient Safety
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    Chapter 43 Paul Farmer: Structural Violence and the Embodiment of Inequality
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Chapter title
George Libman Engel: The Biopsychosocial Model and the Construction of Medical Practice
Chapter number 15
Book title
The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2015
DOI 10.1057/9781137355621_15
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-47022-8, 978-1-137-35562-1
Authors

Marilys Guillemin, Emma Barnard

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 21 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 19%
Student > Bachelor 4 19%
Student > Master 3 14%
Other 1 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 7 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 5 24%
Psychology 3 14%
Arts and Humanities 1 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 5%
Computer Science 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 8 38%