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9780754632764

Constructions of Health and Illness: European Perspectives

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754632764

  • ISBN10:

    0754632768

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-06-01
  • Publisher: ASHGATE PUBLISHING COMPANY
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Summary

Exploring the concepts of health and illness within a number of European countries, this illuminating and inspiring book focuses upon the way in which definitions and constructions of health come about at different levels.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii
List of Figures and Tables viii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction
Ian Shaw and Kaisa Kauppinen
1(3)
1. The Work of Pathologists: Visualisation of Disease and Control of Uncertainty
Elianne Riska
4(12)
2. Constructing Risk: Rumour as a Resource for Medical Sociology
Ian Shaw and Louise Woodward
16(10)
3. Lay Understandings of Health: A Qualitative Study
Sara O'Sullivan and Anne Stakelum
26(18)
4. Self-Rated Health in Moscow and Helsinki
Hannele Palosuo
44(21)
5. Pragmatism, Globalism and Culturalism: Health Pluralism of Chinese People in Britain
Ruby C.M. Chau and Sam W.K. Yu
65(15)
6. Shifting Views of Depression: Analysing People's Accounts of their Suffering
Ilka Kangas
80(9)
7. The Construction of Lay Resistance to Vaccination
Pru Hobson-West
89(18)
8. Pain, Loss and Collective Action: Health Consumer Groups and the Policy Process
Judith Allsop, Kathryn Jones and Rob Baggott
107(17)
9. The Medicalisation of Unhappiness? The Management of Mental Distress in Primary Care
Ian Shaw and Louise Woodward
124(13)
Index 137

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