An introduction to the sociology of health and illness/ Kwvin White

Sociology, Genetics, Social Mobility and LifestyleThe Sociological PerspectivePostmodernity and SociologySociological Approaches to Health and Illness Political Economy and Marxist Approaches Parsonian Sociology of Health Foucault's Sociology of Health Feminist Approaches Bringing the Approaches TogetherTHE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGEMaking Reality Problematic: The Problem of the Medical Model of DiseaseMedical Knowledge Mediates Social Relations Masturbatory Insanity HysteriaThe Technical Realm of Medical PracticeMedical Technology and Social RelationsThe Sociology of Medical KnowledgeFleck and RepresentationsFleck's Sociology of Medical Knowledge Syphilis Anatomical DrawingsFleck, Foucault and KuhnApplying FleckTHE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTHThe Relationship Between Sociology and MedicineMedical Bias in the Sociology of HealthChallenging MedicineSocial Aspects of Disease - The Critique of the Medical ModelKey Concepts in the Sociology of HealthThe Concept of Medicalization Disease: Nature or Society? Medicalization and WomenThe Social Functions of Medical Knowledge and PracticeThe Development of Medicalization Case Study: Gambling Case Study: AlcoholismDevelopments in the Medical ProfessionCharacteristics of the Medicalization of Society Case Study: Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia and the Medicalization of the ClassroomAssessing MedicalizationPOSTMODERNITY, EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND NEO-LIBERALISMPostmodernityLiberalism and the Development of Neo-Liberalism in Health Policy The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries The Dismantling of Welfare and the Resurgence of Neo-LiberalismEpidemiology: The Early FoundationsLimitations of the Risk Factor and Lifestyle ExplanationsDeveloping a Sociological Model of Disease: Disease Classified by Social CauseEpidemiology and StatisticsPsycho-social Perspectives on Social Inequalities in HealthStressSocial SupportThe Social Drift HypothesisTalking About the Diseased SelfCommunity, Social Capital and Inequality Social Capital Social Capital or Income Inequality?MATERIALIST APPROACHES TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTHWhat Causes Disease: The Materialist Explanation Occupation Diet HousingCase Study: Transformations in the Social Structure of Eastern EuropeClass as Occupational PositionUntangling Class and Socio-economic StatusStructural Position as Socio-economic StatusThe Classical Marxist ApproachThe Political and Economic Functions of MedicineThe Medical Profession in a Marxist AnalysisModifications of Classical Marxism and Changes in CapitalismChanges in Class Theory and the Sociology of HealthTransformations of the Medical Profession: The Australian Example Technological Change Commodification Corporate MedicinePARSONS, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICINE AND THE SICK ROLE Diagnostic Variations Prescribing ActivitiesParsons: People Act Rather Than BehaveThe Sick RoleIn Defence of the Sick RoleSickness and American ValuesThe End of the Golden Age of DoctoringFOUCAULT AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE Foucault: The Most General Picture Foucault's Sociology of Health Disciplines of Knowledge, Disciplines of Power: Power/Knowledge Foucault's History of Medicine The Body Historical and Metaphorical Representations of the Body Foucault's Body The Anatomico-Metaphysical Register of the Body Technico-Political Register of the BodyHEALTH, GENDER AND FEMINISM Why are There More Women Patients?Medicalization Are Women More Depressed than Men?Different Forms of Feminism Liberal Feminism Radical Feminism Marxist Feminism Patriarchal Science and Medicine Feminism and the Critique of Technology Case Study: Foucault and Feminism and the Body Bringing Out the Foucauldian-Feminist Position: Screening Men, Gender and Health RACE, ETHNICITY AND HEALTH Race Ethnicity Aboriginality, 'Race' and Disease Racist Bias in Drug Trials Problems with the Appropriation of Ethnicity in Medical Explanations The Genetic Explanation The Appeal of the Genetic Explanation The Sociological Critique of Genetics