Medical Sociology on the Move New Directions in Theory /
This book provides readers with a single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health sociology.�The book�not only addresses the major theoretical approaches in the field today, it also identifies the future directions�these theories are likely to take in explaining the soc...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6193-3 |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1:�The Rise of Theory in Medical Sociology: William C. Cockerham
- Chapter 2:�Modern Symbolic Interaction Theory and Health: Kathy Charmaz and Linda Belgrave
- Chapter 3:�Social Construction and Health: Sigrun Olafsdottir
- Chapter 4: Statecraft and Soulcraft: Foucault in Prolonging Life: Bryan S. Turner and Alex Dumas
- Chapter 5:�Marx, Critical Realism, �and Health Inequalities: Graham Scambler and Sasha Scambler
- Chapter 6:�Fundamental Cause Theory: Bruce Link and Jo Phelan
- Chapter 7:�Bourdieu and an Update of Health Lifestyle Theory: William C. Cockerham
- Chapter 8:�Gender Theory and Health: Ellen Annandale
- Chapter 9:�Theories and the Rise and Fall of the Medical Profession: Bernice Pescosolido
- Chapter 10:�Medicalization, Changing Contours, Characteristics, and Contexts: Peter Conrad
- Chapter 11:�Reflexive Modernity and the Sociology of Health: Brian Hinote and Jason Wasserman
- Chapter 12:�Social Capital and Health: Lijun Song.