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• Title:Key concepts in medical sociology / Jonathan Gabe, Mike Bury, and Mary Ann Elston.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gabe, Jonathan.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Bury, Michael, 1945-
  Elston, Mary Ann.
  
• Published/Created:London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2004.
  

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• Library of Congress Subjects:Social medicine.
  
• Medical Subjects: Sociology, Medical.
  
• Description:xviii, 256 pages ; 21 cm.
  
• Series:SAGE key concepts.
  
• Summary:Written with the needs of today's student in mind, by experienced and respected experts in the subject area, this book is an indispensable study aid and guide to comprehension. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages understanding without sacrificing the level of detail and critical evaluation essential to convey the complexity of the issues.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:0761974423
  0761974415
  
• Contents:Pt. 1. Social patterning of health
  Social class
  Gender
  Ethnicity
  Age
  Place
  Health and development
  Material and cultural factors
  Psycho-social factors
  Social support
  Life events
  Lifecourse
  Pt. 2. Experience of illness
  Medicalization
  Illness behaviour
  Stigma
  Embodiment
  Chronic illness and disability
  Illness narratives
  Risk
  sick role
  Practitioner-client relationships
  Uncertainty
  Compliance and concordance
  Quality of life
  Dying trajectories
  Pt. 3. Health, knowledge and practice
  Medical model
  Social constructionism
  Lay knowledge
  Reproduction
  Medical technologies
  Geneticization
  Surveillance and health promotion
  Pt. 4. Health work and the division of labour
  Professions and professionalization
  Professional socialization
  Medical autonomy and medical dominance
  Decline of medical autonomy
  Medical pluralism
  Negotiated order
  Emotional labour
  Informal care
  Pt. 5. Health care organization and policy
  Hospitals and health care organizations
  Privatization
  Managerialism
  Consumerism
  Social movements and health
  Social problems and health
  new public health
  Medicines regulation
  Citizenship and health
  Evaluation
  Malpractice.