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The sociology of health and illness / Sarah Nettleton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; Cambridge, MA : Polity Press, 1995.Description: ix, 298 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0745608949 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
  • 0745608930 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Other title:
  • Health and illness
  • Sociology of health & illness [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 NET
Contents:
1.Introduction: The changing domains of the sociology of health and illness -- 2.The social construction of medical knowledge -- 3.Lay health beliefs, lifestyles and risk -- 4.The experience of chronic illness and disability -- 5.The sociology of the body -- 6.The sociology of lay-professional interactions -- 7.Social inequalities and health status -- 8.Late modernism and the changing social relations of formal health care work -- 9.Sociological analyses of contemporary developments in UK Health Policy: a new paradigm for health care.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Short Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 306.461 NET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 111778
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 306.461 NET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 116696

Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-289) and index.

1.Introduction: The changing domains of the sociology of health and illness -- 2.The social construction of medical knowledge -- 3.Lay health beliefs, lifestyles and risk -- 4.The experience of chronic illness and disability -- 5.The sociology of the body -- 6.The sociology of lay-professional interactions -- 7.Social inequalities and health status -- 8.Late modernism and the changing social relations of formal health care work -- 9.Sociological analyses of contemporary developments in UK Health Policy: a new paradigm for health care.

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