The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine

This book brings together world-class figures to provide an indispensable, comprehensive resource book on social science, health and medicine.

′Designed for students and professionals in the social sciences and health fields, this handbook is easy to use when searching for specific ideas, theorists and topics and contains helpful diagrams which make understanding easier… overall it provides a wealth of knowledge′- Healthmatters

This is the first international and inter-disciplinary social science Handbook on health and medicine. Five years in the making, and building on the insights and advice of an international editorial board, the book brings together world-class figures to provide an indispensable, comprehensive resource book on social science, health and medicine.

Pinpointing the focal issues of research and debate in one volume, the material is organized into three sections: social and cultural frameworks of analysis; the experience of health and illness; and health care systems and practices. Each section consists of specially commissioned chapters designed to examine the vital conceptual and methodological practice and policy issues. Readers receive not only a complete survey of social science, health and medicine in one volume, they are further provided with an authoritative guide to methodologies, key concepts, central theoretical traditions and an agenda for future research and practice.

The Handbook answers the need, expressed by social scientists and medical practitioners, for an authoritative, inter-disciplinary study which demonstrates the contribution and promise of social science disciplines in the crucial and rapidly changing field of health and medicine. The book will also be of interest to nurses, students in physical therapy, occupational therapy, epidemology, primary care and public health. The Handbook signals the coming of age of the social sciences in the arenas of medicine and health studies

Introduction - Gary L Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick and Susan C Scrimshaw
PART ONE: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FRAMEWORKS OF ANALYSIS
The History of the Changing Concepts of Health and Illness - Bryan S Turner
Outline of a General Model of Illness Categories
Social Theorizing about Health and Illness - David Armstrong
Classification and Process in Sociomedical Understanding - Robert A Rubinstein, Susan C Scrimshaw and Suzanne E Morrisey
Towards a Multilevel View of Sociomedical Methodology
The Social Construction of Medicine and the Body - Deborah Lupton
A Taxonomy of Research Concerned with Place and Health - Ralph Catalano and Kate E Pickett
The Globalization of Health and Disease - Emily C Zielinski Guti[ac]errez and Carl Kendall
The Health Transition and Global Change
The Social Causation of Health and Illness - Johannes Siegrist
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health - Stephanie A Robert and James S House
Integrating Individual-, Community-, and Societal-Level Theory and Research
Gender and Health - Sandra D Lane and Donald A Cibula
Critical Perspectives on Health and Aging - Carroll L Estes and Karen W Linkins
The Social Context of the New Genetics - Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Mary Boulton
PART TWO: THE EXPERIENCE OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Cultural Variation in the Experience of Health and Illness - Ann McElroy and Mary Ann Jezewski
Ethnography and Network Analysis - Robert T Trotter II
The Study of Social Context in Cultures and Societies
Personal Experience of Illness - Arthur Kleinman and Don Seeman
Clinical Narratives and the Study of Contemporary Doctor-Patient Relationships - Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Byron J Good
Accounting for Disease and Distress - Margaret Lock
Morals of the Normal and Abnormal
Experiencing Chronic Illness - Kathy Charmaz
The Global Emergence of Disability - Gary L Albrecht and Lois M Verbrugge
Reproduction and Assisted Reproductive Technologies - Hel[ac]ena Ragon[ac]e and Sharla K Willis
Health-Care Utilization and Barriers to Health Care - Judith D Kasper
Concepts and Measurement of Health Status and Health-Related Quality of Life - Colleen A McHorney
Health Behavior - Thomas R Prohaska, Karen E Peters and Jan S Warren
From Research to Community Practice
PART THREE: HEALTH-CARE SYSTEMS AND PRACTICES
The Medical Profession - David Coburn and Evan Willis
Knowledge, Power, and Autonomy
The Sociological Character of Health-Care Markets - Donald W Light
Medical Uncertainty Revisited - Ren[ac]ee C Fox
Alternative Health Practices and Systems - Sarah Cant and Ursula Sharma
Comparative Health Sytems - Linda M Whiteford and Lois LaCivita Nixon
Emerging Convergences and Globalization
The Patient′s Perspective Regarding Appropriate Health Care - Angela Coulter and Ray Fitzpatrick
Consumer and Community Participation - Deena White
A Reassessment of Process, Impact and Value
An Expanded Conceptual Framework of Equity - Lu Ann Aday
Implications for Assessing Health Policy
Resources and Rationing - Stephen Harrison and Michael Moran
Managing Supply and Demand in Health Care
Reconfiguring Health Policy - Steven Lewis, Marcel Saulnier and Marc Renaud
Simple Truths, Complex Solutions