Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada
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Product details:
- Edition number 5
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 10 April 2008
- ISBN 9780195428421
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 229x178x23 mm
- Weight 721 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 64 figures, 70 tables, 105 boxes 0
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Short description:
In 15 chapters and approximately 500 pages, Clarke has presented a well-written and student friendly overview of the main issues surrounding the sociology of health and illness and the sociology of medicine in our country.
MoreLong description:
In 15 chapters and approximately 500 pages, Clarke has presented a well-written and student friendly overview of the main issues surrounding the sociology of health and illness and the sociology of medicine in our country. The first section opens with a discussion of the basic sociological perspectives, and ways of thinking about health, illness, and medicine. Chapter one addresses all of the major sociological approaches: structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism, feminist
theory, and conflict theory. Part Two addresses critical issues in the sociology of health and illness: disease and death in Canada; environmental and occupational health and illness; social inequity, disease, and death (including age and gender factors as well as class, race, and ethnicity factors);
the experience of being ill including an inside view of how illness is experienced and a unique case study on women and cancer. The third part is devoted to the sociology of medicine. This is very significant; it allows the book to branch out of sociology courses and into nursing courses. Eight out of the books total 16 chapters are in this section. This section is particularly strong. Chapters here investigate the social construction of scientific and medical knowledge and medical practice;
medicalization: the medical-moral mix; medical practitioners, medicare, and the state; the medical profession; a critical assessment of the medical care system in Canada; nurses and midwives in a changing health-care system; complementary and alternative medicine; and the medical-industrial
complex.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Sociological Perspectives
Ch. 1: Ways of Thinking Sociologically about Health, Illness, and Medicine
Ch. 2: Ways of Studying Health, Illness, and Medicine Sociologically
Part II: Sociology of Health and Illness
Ch. 3: Disease and Death: Canada in International and Historical Context
Ch. 4: Environmental and Occupational Health and Illness
Ch. 5: Social Inequity, Disease, and Death: The Social Determinants of Health
Ch. 6: Social Inequity, Disease, and Death in Canada: Age, Gender, Racialization and Ethnicity
Ch. 7: Some Social-Psychological Explanations for Illness
Ch. 8: The Experience of Being Ill
Part III: Sociology of Medicine
Ch. 9: The Social Construction of Scientific and Medical Knowledge and Medical Practice
Ch. 10: Medicalization: The Medical-Moral Mix
Ch. 11: Medical Practitioners, Medicare, and the State
Ch. 12: The Medical Profession
Ch. 13: Nurses and Midwives in the Changing Health-Care System
Ch. 14: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Ch. 15: The Medical-Industrial Complex
