The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine

by Collyer, Fran

• ISBN13: 9781137355614
• ISBN10: 1137355611
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-02-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This wide-reaching handbook offers a new perspective on the sociology of health, illness and medicine by stressing the importance of social theory, and giving due attention to theorists often overlooked in the healthcare field including Harriet Martineau and Raewyn Connell, as well as more widely known theorists such as Michel Foucault and Max Weber.

Here for the first time is a compendium of both male and female social theorists from the turn of the 19th century to the present day. Within these chapters, leading international sociologists from Europe, America, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada investigate the key concepts and theories of a single theorist, looking at the way their ideas such as medicalisation, reflexivity, capitalism, hegemonic masculinity, the biomedical model and social stigma can be used to understand specific health issues including men's health, Indigenous health, disability, the health professions and chronic illness.

Providing a systematic and comprehensive overview of social theory's contribution to our understanding of health, illness and medicine, this handbook will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students in the fields of Health, Medical Sociology and Social Theory.

Author Biography

Fran Collyer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia, National Convenor of the Health Section of The Australian Sociological Association, and former editor and current Board member of the Health Sociology Review. Researching in the fields of the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of health and the privatisation of healthcare services, Collyer recently published Mapping the Sociology of Health and Medicine.

Table of Contents

1. The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks ; Fran Collyer and Graham Scambler
PART I: THE 19TH CENTURY THEORISTS
2. Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forgotten Women in the Study of Gender and Health?; Ellen Annandale
3. Karl Marx and Frederich Engels: Capitalism, Health and the Healthcare Industry; Fran Collyer
4. Florence Nightingale: A Research-Based Approach to Health, Healthcare and Hospital Safety; Lynn McDonald
5. Émile Durkheim: Social Order and Public Health; Kevin Dew
6. Émile Durkheim and Thomas Luckmann: Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health; Rosemary Aird
7. George Herbert Mead: Meanings and Selves in Illness; Linda Liska Belgrave and Kathy Charmaz
8. Max Weber: Bureaucracy, Formal Rationality and the Modern Hospital; William C Cockerham
PART II: THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY THEORISTS
9. Ludwik Fleck: Thought Collectives and the Sociology of Medical Knowledge; Kevin White
10. Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman: Civilised-Dramaturgical Bodies, Social Status and Health Inequalities; Peter Freund
11. Alfred Schutz: The Co-Construction of Meaning Within Professional-Patient Interaction; Patrick Brown
12. Antonio Gramsci and Pierre Bourdieu: 'Whiteness' and Indigenous Healthcare; Angela Durey
PART III: THE MID 20TH CENTURY THEORISTS
13. Talcott Parsons: His Legacy and the Sociology of Health and Illness; Evan Willis
14. Robert Merton: Occupational Roles, Social Status and Health Inequalities; Johannes Siegrist
15. George Libman Engel: The Biopsychosocial Model and the Construction of Medical Practice; Marilys Guillemin and Emma Barnard
16. Harold Garfinkel: Lessons on Emergent Behaviours in Complex Organisations; Peter Nugus and Jeffrey Braithwaite
17. Meg Stacey: The Sociology of Health and Healing; Hannah Bradby
18. Erving Goffman: The Moral Career of Stigma and Mental Illness; Bernice Pescosolido
19. Eliot Freidson: Sociological Narratives of Professionalism and Modern Medicine; Michael Calnan
20. Ivan Illich and Irving Kenneth Zola: Disabling Medicalisation; Joseph E Davis
21. Michel Foucault: Governmentality, Health Policy and the Governance of Childhood Obesity; Julie Henderson
22. Niklas Luhmann: Social Systems Theory and the Translation of Public Health Research; Samantha Meyer, Barry Gibson and Paul Ward
23. Jürgen Habermas: Health and Healing Across the Lifeworld-System Divide; Graham Scambler
24. Pierre Bourdieu: Health Lifestyles, the Family and Social Class; Kate Huppatz
PART IV: THE LATE 20TH CENTURY AND THEORISTS OF THE PRESENT
25. Colin Leys and Colin Hay: Market-Driven Politics and the Depoliticisation of Healthcare; Heather Whiteside
26. Vicente Navarro: Marxism, Medical Dominance, Healthcare and Health; David Coburn
27. Anthony Giddens: Structuration, Drug Use, Food Choice and Long-Term Illness; Jonathan Gabe and Joana Almeida
28. Anthony Giddens: The Reflexive Self and the Consumption of Alternative Medicine; Katie Hughes
29. Anthony Giddens: Risk, Globalisation and Indigenous Public Health; Eileen Willis and Meryl Pearce
30. William C Cockerham: The Sociology of Health Lifestyles; Brian Hinote
31. George Ritzer: Rationalisation, Consumerism and the McDonaldisation of Surgery; Justin Waring and Simon Bishop
32. Julia Kristeva: Abjection, Embodiment and Boundaries; Trudy Rudge
33. Magali Sarfatti-Larson and Anne Witz: Professional Projects, Class and Gender; Ivy Bourgeault
34. Raewyn Connell: Hegemonic Masculinities, Gender and Male Health; John Scott
35. Raewyn Connell: Gender, Health and Healthcare; Maree Herrett and Toni Schofield
36. Donna Haraway: The Digital Cyborg Assemblage and the New Digital Health Technologies; Deborah Lupton
37. Mike Bury: Biographical Disruption and Long-Term and Other Health Conditions; Louise Locock and Sue Ziebland
38. Bryan S Turner: Bringing Bodies and Citizenship Into the Discussion of Disability; Gary L Albrecht
39. Peter Conrad: The Medicalisation of Society; Simon Williams and Jonathan Gabe
40. Eva Feder Kittay: Dependency Work and the Social Division of Care; Michael Fine
41. Gøsta Esping-Andersen: Welfare Regimes and Social Inequalities in Health; Mikael Rostila
42. Bruno Latour: From Acting at a Distance Towards Matters of Concern in Patient Safety; Su-yin Hor and Rick Iedema
43. Paul Farmer: Structural Violence and the Embodiment of Inequality; Fernando De Maio