TY  - BOOK
AU  - Iphofen,Ron
AU  - Poland,Fiona
AU  - Campling,Jo
TI  - Sociology in practice for health care professionals
SN  - 9780333645765 (pbk.) :
AV  - RA418 .I74 1998
U1  - 306.461 IPH 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Community nursing
KW  - thema
KW  - Nursing sociology
KW  - Health systems & services
KW  - Sociology & anthropology
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Sociology, Medical
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-260) and index; 1.The nature of sociology: explanations and applications -- 2.The power to care -- 3.Learning to care: a lifetime of socialisation -- 4.The basis of informal care: families and households -- 5.Healthy learning -- 6.Working for health -- 7.Equal and unequal opportunities -- 8.Inherited health -- 9.Natural carers: sex and gender -- 10.Common and uncommon cultures -- 11.Beliefs, moralities and ideologies of care -- 12.Controlling conditions -- 13.The costs of \'free\' time -- 14.Welfare, ill-fare, how fair? -- 15.Modelling health care sociologically
N2  - Health processes and outcomes are analysed in this text in terms of social difference, inequality, opportunities and life chances. Key sociological concepts and theories are introduced by using practical exercises
ER  -