The Sociology of Healthcare

The Sociology of Healthcare
Title The Sociology of Healthcare PDF eBook
Author Alan Clarke
Publisher Routledge
Pages 448
Release 2013-09-13
Genre Medical
ISBN 1317864530

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The Sociology of Healthcare, Second Edition explores the impact of current social changes on health, illness and healthcare, and provides an overview of the fundamental concerns in these areas. This new edition features a brand new chapter entitled End of Life which will help health and social care workers to respond with confidence to one of the most difficult and challenging areas of care. The End of Life chapter includes information on changing attitudes to death, theories of death and dying, and palliative care. All chapters have been thoroughly updated to address diversity issues such as gender, ethnicity and disability. In addition, expanded and updated chapters include Childhood and Adolescence and Health Inequalities. The text is further enhanced through the use of case studies that relate theory to professional practice, and discussion questions to aid understanding. Links to websites direct the reader to further information on health, social wellbeing and government policies. This book is essential reading for all students of healthcare including nursing, medicine, midwifery and health studies and for those studying healthcare as part of sociology, social care and social policy degrees. In an age when health policy follows an individualist model of personal responsibility this book by Alan Clarke demonstrates with a vast array of evidence, just how much there is such a thing as society. An excellent overall book.Dr. Stephen Cowden, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Coventry University

The Sociology of Healthcare

The Sociology of Healthcare
Title The Sociology of Healthcare PDF eBook
Author Alan Clarke
Publisher Pearson Education
Pages 452
Release 2010
Genre Medical care
ISBN 9781405858496

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This edition explores the impact of current social changes on health, illness and healthcare, and provides an overview of the fundamental concerns in these areas. The text is further enhanced through the use of case studies that relate theory to professional practice, and discussion questions to aid understanding.

The Sociology of the Health Service

The Sociology of the Health Service
Title The Sociology of the Health Service PDF eBook
Author Michael Bury
Publisher Routledge
Pages 431
Release 2002-09-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1134969392

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The Sociology of the Health Service responds directly to the need to develop a sociological analysis of current health policy. Topics covered vary from privatisation and health service management to health education and the politics of professional power. Also included is an histroical review of sociology's contributions to health policy and proposals for an agenda for sociological health policy research in the 1990s.

Society and Health

Society and Health
Title Society and Health PDF eBook
Author Richard K. Thomas
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 375
Release 2007-05-08
Genre Medical
ISBN 0306478897

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-Rick Thomas brings his 30 years experience in the field to the text making it very applied and accessible. -Lots of boxed material. -"Recommended" purchase for all librarians as reviewed in the June 2004 issue of CHOICE.

The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care

The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care
Title The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care PDF eBook
Author Rose Weitz
Publisher Wadsworth Publishing Company
Pages 506
Release 2001
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN

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Traditionally, medical sociology texts have been written from a medical perspective, focusing primarily on health issues as they have been defined by doctors, and often reading much like health education textbooks. Weitz, instead, adopts a critical perspective, sometimes challenging medical perspectives, sometimes raising broader issues beyond those of interest to the medical world. This perspective, which is more thoroughly sociological, is now more common among instructors than the older medical perspective.

Sociology and Health

Sociology and Health
Title Sociology and Health PDF eBook
Author Peter Morrall
Publisher Routledge
Pages 257
Release 2009-03-04
Genre Art
ISBN 1134119321

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This lively, introductory text provides nurses with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues, explaining the key theories and debates with humour and imagination in a way that will encourage an inquisitive and reflective approach.

The Sociology of Health and Illness

The Sociology of Health and Illness
Title The Sociology of Health and Illness PDF eBook
Author Sarah Nettleton
Publisher Polity
Pages 320
Release 2006-07-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0745628281

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This reader brings together recent writing on health, illness and health care in contemporary society. It emphasizes the empirical nature of medical sociology and its relationship with the development of sociological theory.