The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health Illness and Medicine 1st edition by Palgrave Macmillan 9781137355621 113735562X

1. The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks

Part I: The Nineteenth-Century Theorists

2. Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forgotten Women in the Study of Gender and Health

3. Karl Marx and Frederich Engels: Capitalism, Health and the Healthcare Industry

4. Florence Nightingale: A Research-Based Approach to Health, Healthcare and Hospital Safety

5. Émile Durkheim: Social Order and Public Health

6. Émile Durkheim and Thomas Luckmann: Religion, Post-Christian Spirituality and Mental Health

7. George Herbert Mead: Meanings and Selves in Illness

8. Max Weber: Bureaucracy, Formal Rationality and the Modern Hospital

Part II: The Early Twentieth-Century Theorists

9. Ludwik Fleck: Thought Collectives and the Sociology of Medical Knowledge

10. Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman: Civilised-Dramaturgical Bodies, Social Status and Health Inequalities

11. Alfred Schutz: The Co-construction of Meaning within Professional–Patient Interaction

12. Antonio Gramsci and Pierre Bourdieu: ‘Whiteness’ and Indigenous Healthcare

Part III: The Mid-Twentieth-Century Theorists

13. Talcott Parsons: His Legacy and the Sociology of Health and Illness

14. Robert Merton: Occupational Roles, Social Status and Health Inequalities

15. George Libman Engel: The Biopsychosocial Model and the Construction of Medical Practice

16. Harold Garfinkel: Lessons on Emergent Behaviours in Complex Organisations

17. Margaret Stacey: The Sociology of Health and Healing

18. Erving Goffman: The Moral Career of Stigma and Mental Illness

19. Eliot Freidson: Sociological Narratives of Professionalism and Modern Medicine

20. Ivan Illich and Irving Kenneth Zola: Disabling Medicalisation

21. Michel Foucault: Governmentality, Health Policy and the Governance of Childhood Obesity

22. Niklas Luhmann: Social Systems Theory and the Translation of Public Health Research

23. Jürgen Habermas: Health and Healing Across the Lifeworld–System Divide

24. Pierre Bourdieu: Health Lifestyles, the Family and Social Class

Part IV: The Late Twentieth Century and Theorists of the Present

25. Colin Leys and Colin Hay: Market-Driven Politics and the Depoliticisation of Healthcare

26. Vicente Navarro: Marxism, Medical Dominance, Healthcare and Health

27. Anthony Giddens: Structuration, Drug Use, Food Choice and Long-Term Illness

28. Anthony Giddens: The Reflexive Self and the Consumption of Alternative Medicine

29. Anthony Giddens: Risk, Globalisation and Indigenous Public Health

30. William C. Cockerham: The Contemporary Sociology of Health Lifestyles

31. George Ritzer: Rationalisation, Consumerism and the McDonaldisation of Surgery

32. Julia Kristeva: Abjection, Embodiment and Boundaries

33. Magali Sarfatti Larson and Anne Witz: Professional Projects, Class and Gender

34. Raewyn Connell: Hegemonic Masculinities, Gender and Male Health

35. Raewyn Connell: Gender, Health and Healthcare

36. Donna Haraway: The Digital Cyborg Assemblage and the New Digital Health Technologies

37. Mike Bury: Biographical Disruption and Long-Term and Other Health Conditions

38. Bryan S. Turner: Bringing Bodies and Citizenship into the Discussion of Disability

39. Peter Conrad: The Medicalisation of Society

40. Eva Feder Kittay: Dependency Work and the Social Division of Care

41. Gøsta Esping-Andersen: Welfare Regimes and Social Inequalities in Health

42. Bruno Latour: From Acting at a Distance Towards Matters of Concern in Patient Safety

43. Paul Farmer: Structural Violence and the Embodiment of Inequality

Index