TY  - BOOK
AU  - Armstrong,David
TI  - Outline of sociology as applied to medicine
SN  - 9780340809204 (pbk.) :
AV  - RA418 
U1  - 362.1042 ARM 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Arnold
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - History of medicine
KW  - thema
KW  - Personal & public health
KW  - Illness & addiction: social aspects
KW  - Psychological theory & schools of thought
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Social Medicine
KW  - Sociology, Medical
N1  - Previous ed.: Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994; Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-156) and index; 1. Introduction-- Scope of the book --2. Going to the doctor--The experience of symptoms-- Illness behaviour--Importance of illness behaviour for the doctor--Illness behaviour and the medical model--3. Measuring health and illness --Mortality --Morbidity prevalence studies--Sickness absence rates-- Caseload --Measures of functioning --Self-report measures --Subjective health measures--Quality of life measures --Health and expectations--Measuring health --4. Social causes of illness--Causal models--Establishing a causal relationship-- Social factors: indirect effects --Social factors: direct effects --Social integration --Social support-- Social capital --Life events--5. Labelling behaviour--Primary deviance --Secondary deviance --Stigma --Disablement--    Labelling and psychiatric disease --6. Social patterns of illness:1. Explaining illness patterns--  Historical changes --Geography --Occupation --Gender-- Ethnicity--Unemployment--7. Social patterns of illness: II -- Age --Social class --The life course--8. Coping with illness-- Managing labels--Coping with chronic illness--Carers and coping--9.  Models of illness--Exploring abdominal pain --Symptoms and pathology --Biographical or patient-centred medicine --Surveillance medicine --Alternative models of illness --Models of the doctor--patient relationship--10. Types of health care --Self-care--Family care --The role of carers --Community care--Self-help groups--   Professional care--11. Medicine, the professions and clinical autonomy --Controlling information--   Limiting costs--Economic incentives --Evaluating doctors\' decisions --Clinical governance--12.    Organizing health care --Allocating scarce resources --Government intervention in health care--    Managed competition --The internal market--The future of health care --13. Evaluating health care --Is the health care system effective/efficient?--Does the health care system meet the \'real\' needs of its consumers?--Is the allocation of health care fair?--Is health care iatrogenic?--14.The social role of medicine --Defining disease --Normality in medicine --The biological basis of disease --The doctor as agent of social control --Medicine and society
N2  - The fifth edition of this textbook explores the origins, nature and context of illness in society and provides a framework for understanding the relationship between health, health care and the society in which it occurs
ER  -