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Sociology in practice for health care professionals / Ron Iphofen and Fiona Poland ; consulting editor, Jo Campling.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1998.Description: x, 262p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780333645765 (pbk.) :
  • 0333645766 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 IPH
LOC classification:
  • RA418 .I74 1998
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 306.461 IPH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 119856

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.

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.

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