TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petersen,Alan R.
AU  - Waddell,Charles
AU  - Petersen,Alan R.
TI  - Health matters: a sociology of illness, prevention and care 
SN  - 9780335202614 (hbk.) :
AV  - RA418.H4 1998 
U1  - 306.461 PET 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Buckingham
PB  - Open University Press
KW  - Health
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Public health
KW  - Australia
KW  - Health risk assessment
KW  - Right to health care
KW  - Health services accessibility
KW  - Public health & preventive medicine
KW  - thema
KW  - Social welfare & social services
KW  - Social & ethical issues
KW  - Age groups: the elderly
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Sociology, Medical
KW  - Attitude to Health
KW  - Health Services Accessibility
KW  - economics
KW  - Health Status
KW  - Socioeconomic Factors
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; PART 1 Sociology matters  1 Postmodernism and \'health\' - Nick J Fox  2 Inequalities in late-modern health care - Robin Bunton  3 Consumer reconstructions of medical knowledge in Australia - Stephanie D Short  4 Emotions, equity and health - Simon J Williams  5 Evolutionary medicine - James S Chisholm  PART 2 Experience matters  6 Health matters in developing economies - Lenore Manderson  7 Ethnicity, health and health care in Britain - Waqar Ahmad & Lesley Jones  8 Children\'s images of health - Gillian Bendelow & Pat Pridmore  9 Health and the discourse of weight control - Deirdre Davies  10 Containing the body - Wendy Seymour  11 A good enough death? - Beverley McNamara  PART 3 Care matters  12 Medicine and health care in popular media - Deborah Lupton  13 Trust and medical authority - Ann Daniel  14 Uncertainty in medical decision-making - Gillian Hatt  15 Looking after patients and doctors - Valerie A Clifford
N2  - Focusing on inequalities in health and illness, healthcare and prevention, this work presents contemporary perspectives and empirical evidence in the sociology of health and the social relationships which shape health status
ER  -