List of Contributors | vii | ||||
List of Figures and Tables | viii | ||||
Acknowledgements | ix | ||||
Introduction | |||||
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1. The Work of Pathologists: Visualisation of Disease and Control of Uncertainty | |||||
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4 | (12) | |||
2. Constructing Risk: Rumour as a Resource for Medical Sociology | |||||
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16 | (10) | |||
3. Lay Understandings of Health: A Qualitative Study | |||||
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26 | (18) | |||
4. Self-Rated Health in Moscow and Helsinki | |||||
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44 | (21) | |||
5. Pragmatism, Globalism and Culturalism: Health Pluralism of Chinese People in Britain | |||||
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65 | (15) | |||
6. Shifting Views of Depression: Analysing People's Accounts of their Suffering | |||||
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80 | (9) | |||
7. The Construction of Lay Resistance to Vaccination | |||||
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89 | (18) | |||
8. Pain, Loss and Collective Action: Health Consumer Groups and the Policy Process | |||||
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107 | (17) | |||
9. The Medicalisation of Unhappiness? The Management of Mental Distress in Primary Care | |||||
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124 | (13) | |||
Index | 137 |
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