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The sociology of health and illness in Ireland / edited by Anne Cleary and Margaret P. Treacy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 1997.Description: 232p. : ill. ; 24cmISBN:
  • 9781900621113 (pbk) :
  • 1900621118
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 CLE
Contents:
Section 1: Sociology, Health and Illness. 1.Why should nurses bother with soliology? - Sam Porter -- 2.From biomedicine to holistic health: Towards a new health model - Vincent Tucker -- 3.Conceptions of health and illness in Ireland - Desmond McCluskey -- 4.Ethical and social implications of technology in medicine: New possibilities and new dilemmas - Orla McDonnell. Section 2: Inequalities in Health Care. 5.Social class differences in lifestyle and health characteristics in Ireland - Claire Collins and Emer Shelley -- 6.Unemployment and health - Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan. Section 3: Health Isssues and Life Course. 7.The medicalisation of childbearing norms: Encounters between unmarried pregnant women and medical personnel in an Irish context - Abbey Hyde -- 8.Beyond the moral panic - Results from a recent study of teenage pregnancy - Andrew Finlay, Dorothy Whittington, Nicola Shaw and Monica McWilliams -- 9.Contesting concepts of care: The case of the home help service in Ireland - Orla O\'Donavan -- 10.Older people and life-course construction in Ireland - Ricca Edmondson. Section 4: Mental Health. 11.Alcoholism in Ireland - Tanya M. Cassidy -- 12.Gender differences in mental health in Ireland - Anne Cleary -- 13.The asylum in Ireland: A brief institutional history and some local effects - A. Jamie Saris.
Summary: These essays on health and illness from a sociological perspective, look at health and health models within social and political contexts. They are divided into theoretical and general issues, inequalities in health care, health and aspects of life-course, mental health and alcoholism.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 306.461 CLE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 115441

Includes bibliographies and index.

Section 1: Sociology, Health and Illness. 1.Why should nurses bother with soliology? - Sam Porter -- 2.From biomedicine to holistic health: Towards a new health model - Vincent Tucker -- 3.Conceptions of health and illness in Ireland - Desmond McCluskey -- 4.Ethical and social implications of technology in medicine: New possibilities and new dilemmas - Orla McDonnell. Section 2: Inequalities in Health Care. 5.Social class differences in lifestyle and health characteristics in Ireland - Claire Collins and Emer Shelley -- 6.Unemployment and health - Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan. Section 3: Health Isssues and Life Course. 7.The medicalisation of childbearing norms: Encounters between unmarried pregnant women and medical personnel in an Irish context - Abbey Hyde -- 8.Beyond the moral panic - Results from a recent study of teenage pregnancy - Andrew Finlay, Dorothy Whittington, Nicola Shaw and Monica McWilliams -- 9.Contesting concepts of care: The case of the home help service in Ireland - Orla O\'Donavan -- 10.Older people and life-course construction in Ireland - Ricca Edmondson. Section 4: Mental Health. 11.Alcoholism in Ireland - Tanya M. Cassidy -- 12.Gender differences in mental health in Ireland - Anne Cleary -- 13.The asylum in Ireland: A brief institutional history and some local effects - A. Jamie Saris.

These essays on health and illness from a sociological perspective, look at health and health models within social and political contexts. They are divided into theoretical and general issues, inequalities in health care, health and aspects of life-course, mental health and alcoholism.

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