The Sociology of Health and Healing A Textbook

By:

Margaret Stacey

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Routledge 2003Description: 320 pagesISBN:

1134897936
9781134897933

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

362.10973 STA

Contents:

Contents: Some Theoretical and Methodological Thoughts Part One 3 The Plurality of Healing Systems in Tudor and Stuart England 4 EighteenthCentury Foundations for the Development of Biomedicine Control Exploitation and the Development of Medical Knowledge 6 Organizing the Division of Labour in Health Care 7 Laying the Basis for the National Health Service the National Health Service Alternative Healing Systems Biomedicine and Beyond 13 Social Organization of Health Care and the Division of Paid Health Labour the Patients the Unpaid Carers 16 Health Care and Late TwentiethCentury Capitalism 17 Reproduction for the TwentyFirst Century References and Bibliography Part Two Lay Concepts of Health and Illness Index

Summary: "...It is well-written and well-referenced...this is an important, innovative, enjoyable textbook which can be highly recommended for use in undergraduate and postgraduate sociology courses on health related subjects, and which will be of value in courses on women's studies and gender. It will also be of interest to inquiring health care practitioners of whatever persuasion." - Sociology "This book takes a bold step in pointing new directions for sociological and social-historical studies of health and health care." - Social History of Medicine Throughout the book, the division of labour in health care, especially as it relates to social class and gender divisions, is taken as central. Its particular characteristic, and one that distinguishes it from other texts in this field, is that feminist critiques of health care are considered alongside the mainstream writing in the social history of medicine, and in medical sociology. Part I takes an historical approach to the types of healing knowledge, the modes of treatment, and the organization of health care found in Europe over the last four hundred years. Part II is a sociological analysis of contemporary health care covering concepts of health and illness, the organization of the National Health Service, the division of labour, the impact of international capitalism, and the issues at stake in arguments about human reproduction.

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E-BOOKS	MWALIMU NYERERE LEARNING RESOURCES CENTRE-CUHAS BUGANDO	NFIC	362.10973 STA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	-1	EBS12123

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Contents:

Some Theoretical and Methodological Thoughts

Part One

3 The Plurality of Healing Systems in Tudor and Stuart England

4 EighteenthCentury Foundations for the Development of Biomedicine

Control Exploitation and the Development of Medical Knowledge

6 Organizing the Division of Labour in Health Care

7 Laying the Basis for the National Health Service

the National Health Service

Alternative Healing Systems

Biomedicine and Beyond

13 Social Organization of Health Care and the Division of Paid Health Labour

the Patients

the Unpaid Carers

16 Health Care and Late TwentiethCentury Capitalism

17 Reproduction for the TwentyFirst Century

References and Bibliography

Part Two

Lay Concepts of Health and Illness

Index

"...It is well-written and well-referenced...this is an important, innovative, enjoyable textbook which can be highly recommended for use in undergraduate and postgraduate sociology courses on health related subjects, and which will be of value in courses on women's studies and gender. It will also be of interest to inquiring health care practitioners of whatever persuasion." - Sociology "This book takes a bold step in pointing new directions for sociological and social-historical studies of health and health care." - Social History of Medicine Throughout the book, the division of labour in health care, especially as it relates to social class and gender divisions, is taken as central. Its particular characteristic, and one that distinguishes it from other texts in this field, is that feminist critiques of health care are considered alongside the mainstream writing in the social history of medicine, and in medical sociology. Part I takes an historical approach to the types of healing knowledge, the modes of treatment, and the organization of health care found in Europe over the last four hundred years. Part II is a sociological analysis of contemporary health care covering concepts of health and illness, the organization of the National Health Service, the division of labour, the impact of international capitalism, and the issues at stake in arguments about human reproduction.

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