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This wide-reaching handbook offers a new perspective on the sociology of health, illness and medicine by stressing the importance of social theory. Examining a range of classic and contemporary female and male theorists from across the globe, it explores various issues including chronic illness, counselling and the rising problems of obesity.
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Keywords
- social theory
- social theorists
- contemporary social theorists
- classical social theorists
- health
- illness
- medicine
- healthcare
- health care
- sociology
- Marx
- Durkheim
- Weber
- Illich
- Goffman
- Nightingale
- Witz
- Gramsci
- Bourdieu
- Parsons
- childhood
- globalization
- health policy
- Institution
- interaction
- Max Weber
- Niklas Luhmann
- organization
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Public Health
- religion
- systems theory
Table of contents (43 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks
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The Nineteenth-Century Theorists
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Front Matter
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The Early Twentieth-Century Theorists
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Front Matter
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The Mid-Twentieth-Century Theorists
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Editors and Affiliations
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Rosemary Aird, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Gary L Albrecht, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Joana Almeida, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Ellen Annandale, University of York, UK
Emma Barnard, University of Melbourne, Australia
Linda Belgrave, University of Miami, USA
Simon Bishop, Nottingham University Business School, UK
Hannah Bradby, University of Warwick, UK
Jeffrey Braithwaite, University of New South Wales, Australia
Patrick Brown, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ivy Bourgeault, The University of Ottawa, Canada
Michael Calnan, University of Kent, UK
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University, USA
David Coburn, University of Toronto, Canada
William C. Cockerham, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Fran Collyer, University of Sydney, Australia
Joseph E. Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, USA
Fernando De Maio, DePaul University, USA
Kevin Dew, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Angela Durey, Curtin University, Australia
Michael Fine, Macquarie University, Australia
Peter Freund, Montclair State University, USA
Jonathan Gabe, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Barry Gibson, University of Sheffield, UK
Marilys Guillemin, University of Melbourne, Australia
Julie Henderson, Flinders University, Australia
Maree Herrett, Independent Scholar, Australia
Brian Hinote, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
Suy-in Hor, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Katie Hughes,Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Rick Iedema, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Louise Locock, University of Oxford, UK
Deborah Lupton, University of Canberra, Australia
Lynn McDonald, University of Guelph, Canada
Samantha Meyer, University of Waterloo, Canada
Peter Nugus, McGill University, Canada
Meryl Pearce, James Cook University, Australia
Bernice A. Pescosolido, Indiana University, USA
Mikael Rostila, Stockholm University, Sweden
Trudy Rudge, University of Sydney, Australia
Graham Scambler, University College London, UK
Toni Schofield, University of Sydney, Australia
John Scott, University of New England, Australia
Johannes Siegrist, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany
Paul Ward, Flinders University, Australia
Justin Waring, University of Warwick, UK
Kevin White, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australia
Heather Whiteside, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Simon J. Williams, University of Warwick, UK
Eileen Willis, Flinders University, Australia
Evan Willis, Independent Scholar, Australia
Sue Ziebland, University of Oxford, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine
Editors: Fran Collyer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137355621
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-35561-4Published: 12 February 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47022-8Published: 12 February 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-35562-1Published: 12 February 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 710
Topics: Social Theory, History of Medicine, Sociology, general, Medical Sociology, Public Health, Social Policy