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Informationen zum Autor Sarah Nettleton is professor of sociology at the University of York! UK. Klappentext Sarah Nettleton s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the field. Zusammenfassung Sarah Nettleton s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text! popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Preface to First Edition Preface to Second Edition Preface to Third Edition 1 Introduction: The Changing Domains of the Sociology of Health and Illness 2 The Social Construction of Medical Knowledge 3 Lay Health Beliefs! Lifestyles and Risk 4 The Experience of Chronic Illness and Disability 5 The Sociology of the Body 6 The Sociology of LayDProfessional Interactions 7 Social Inequalities and Health Status 8 Late Modernism and the Changing Social Relations of Formal Health Care Work 9 The Sociology of Innovative Health Technology 10 Sociological Analyses of Developments in UK Health Policy: A New Paradigm for Health Care? Bibliography Index
