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  • © 1989

Ideas about Illness

An Intellectual and Political History of Medical Sociology

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  1. Uta Gerhardt
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. The Structural-Functionalist Paradigm: Illness as Social Role and Motivated Deviance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-4
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    2. Parsons’ Notion of Illness

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      Pages 5-15

    3. The Capacity Model

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      Pages 16-33

    4. The Deviancy Model

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      Pages 34-59

  3. The Interactionist Paradigm: Illness as Professional Construction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-81
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    2. The Interactionist Notion of Illness

      • Uta Gerhardt
      Pages 82-90

    3. The Crisis Model

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      Pages 91-122

    4. The Negotiation Model

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      Pages 123-156

  4. The Phenomenological Paradigm: Illness as Intersubjectively Constructed Reality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-187
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    2. The Phenomenological Notion of Illness

      • Uta Gerhardt
      Pages 188-196

    3. The Trouble Model

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      Pages 197-228

  5. The Conflict-Theory Paradigm: Illness as Failure of Resources and Ideological Construct

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-258
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    2. The Conflict Notion of Illness

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      Pages 259-276

    3. The Loss Model

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      Pages 277-307

    4. The Domination-Deprivation Model

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      Pages 308-334
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In this book, Uta Gerhardt maintains that the sociological definition of deviance as disease has, at its roots, a political connotation. She traces how the four schools of mid- and late-twentieth century sociology have dealt with the idea of illness from structural functionalism through interactionism and phenomenology to conflict theory.
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