| Description |
ix, 372 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Bodies -- 1. Reading the Body / Paul Atkinson -- 2. The Power of the Visible: The Meaning of Diagnostic Tests in Chronic Back Pain / Lorna A. Rhodes, Carol A. McPhillips-Tangum, Christine Markham and Rebecca Klenk -- 3. Exchanging Spare Parts or Becoming a New Person? People's Attitudes toward Receiving and Donating Organs / Margareta A. Sanner -- 4. Social and Ethical Aspects of in vitro Fertilization / Elizabeth Heitman -- 5. Reproductive Genetics, Gender and the Body: 'Please Doctor, may I have a Normal Baby?' / Elizabeth Ettorre -- 6. A Mirage of Genes / Peter Conrad -- 7. A 'Revenge' on Modern Times: Notes on Traumatic Brain Injury / David Webb -- 8. Contemporary Hospice Care: The Sequestration of the Unbounded Body and 'Dirty Dying' / Julia Lawton -- Pt. II. Health and Risk -- 9. The Rise of Surveillance Medicine / David Armstrong -- 10. Health Related Behavioural Change in Context: Young People in Transition / Stephen Pavis, Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Amanda Amos -- 11. Accidents and the Risk Society: Some Problems with Prevention / Judith Green -- 12. Invisible Women? The Importance of Gender in Lay Beliefs about Heart Problems / Carol Emslie, Kate Hunt and Graham Watt -- 13. Beliefs and Accounts of Illness: Views from Two Cantonese-Speaking Communities in England / Lindsay Prior, Pang Lai Chun and See Beng Huat -- Pt. III. Experiencing Illness -- 14. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and the Medical Encounter / Lesley Cooper -- 15. Parkinson's Disease as a Problem of Shame in Public Appearance / Gerhard Nijhof -- 16. From Biographical Disruption to Biographical Reinforcement: The Case of HIV-Positive Men / Daniele Carricaburu and Janine Pierret -- 17. The Meaning of Lumps: a Case Study of the Ambiguities of Risk / Sandra M. Gifford -- 18. Pumping Iron: Compliance with Chelation Therapy among Young People who have Thalassaemia Major / Karl Atkin and Waqar I. U. Ahmad -- Pt. IV. Social Patterning of Health and Illness -- 19. Socio-economic Change and Inequalities in Men and Women's Health in the UK / Hilary Graham -- 20. Ethnic Inequalities in Health: A Review of UK Epidemiological Evidence / George Davey Smith, Nish Chaturvedi, Seeromanie Harding, James Nazroo and Rory Williams -- 21. Area, Class and Health: Should we be Focusing on Places or People? / Sally Macintyre, Sheila MacIver and Anne Sooman -- 22. The Psycho-social Perspective on Social Inequalities in Health / Jon Ivar Elstad -- Pt. V. Health Care Work -- 23. Medical Autonomy and the UK State 1975 to 2025 / Stephen Harrison and Waqar I. U. Ahmad -- 24. Humour as Resistance to Professional Dominance in Community Mental Health Teams / Lesley Griffiths -- 25. The State and Complementary Medicine: A Changing Relationship? / Sarah Cant and Ursula Sharma -- 26. Working on the Front-Line: Risk Culture and Nursing in the New NHS / Ellen Annandale -- 27. Consumerism, Reflexivity and the Medical Encounter / Deborah Lupton |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social medicine.
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Social medicine -- Great Britain.
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Social Medicine.
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Social Medicine [MESH]
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Sociology, Medical [MESH]
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Attitude to Health [MESH]
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Physician-Patient Relations [MESH]
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Social Medicine.
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Sociology, Medical.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
| Genre/Form |
Collected Work.
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| Author |
Nettleton, Sarah.
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Gustafsson, Ulla (Ulla S. B.)
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| LC no. |
2002066308 |
| ISBN |
0745622909 |
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0745622917 paperback |
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