The Sociology of Health and Illness in Ireland

by Cleary, Anne; Treacy, Margaret P.

• ISBN13: 9781900621113
• ISBN10: 1900621118
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Univ College Dublin Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(14)
Anne Cleary
Margaret P. Treacy
SECTION ONE: SOCIOLOGY, HEALTH AND ILLNESS	15	(72)
1. Why Should Nurses Bother with Sociology?	15	(15)
Sam Porter
2. From Biomedicine to Holistic Health: Towards a New Health Model	30	(21)
Vincent Tucker
3. Conceptions of Health and Illness in Ireland	51	(18)
Desmond McCluskey
4. Ethical and Social Implications of Technology in Medicine: New Possibilities and New Dilemmas	69	(18)
Orla McDonnell
SECTION TWO: INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH CARE	87	(28)
5. Social Class Differences in Lifestyle and Health Characteristics in Ireland	87	(12)
Claire Collins
Emer Shelley
6. Unemployment and Health	99	(16)
Brian Nolan
Christopher T. Whelan
SECTION THREE: HEALTH ISSUES AND LIFE COURSE	115	(60)
7. The Medicalisation of Childbearing Norms: Encounters between Unmarried Pregnant Women and Medical Personnel in an Irish Context	115	(13)
Abbey Hyde
8. Beyond the Moral Panic -- Results from a Recent Study of Teenage Pregnancy	128	(13)
Andrew Finlay
Dorothy Whittington
Nicola Shaw
Monica McWilliams
9. Contesting Concepts of Care: The Case of the Home Help Service in Ireland	141	(15)
Orla O'Donovan
10. Older People and Life-Course Construction in Ireland	156	(19)
Ricca Edmondson
SECTION FOUR: MENTAL HEALTH	175	(49)
11. Alcoholism in Ireland	175	(18)
Tanya M. Cassidy
12. Gender Differences in Mental Health in Ireland	193	(15)
Anne Gleary
13. The Asylum in Ireland: A Brief Institutional History and Some Local Effects	208	(16)
A. Jamie Saris
Notes on Contributors	224	(3)
Index	227