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"Cover" -- "Half-Title" -- "Series" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures and Tables" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Notes on Contributors" -- "1 The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks" -- "Part I: The Nineteenth-Century Theorists" -- "2 Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forgotten Women in the Study of Gender and Health" -- "3 Karl Marx and Frederich Engels: Capitalism, Health and the Healthcare Industry" -- "4 Florence Nightingale: A Research-Based Approach to Health, Healthcare and Hospital Safety" -- "5 Émile Durkheim: Social Order and Public Health" -- "6 Émile Durkheim and Thomas Luckmann: Religion, Post-Christian Spirituality and Mental Health" -- "7 George Herbert Mead: Meanings and Selves in Illness" -- "8 Max Weber: Bureaucracy, Formal Rationality and the Modern Hospital" -- "Part II: The Early Twentieth-Century Theorists" -- "9 Ludwik Fleck: Thought Collectives and the Sociology of Medical Knowledge" -- "10 Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman: Civilised-Dramaturgical Bodies, Social Status and Health Inequalities" -- "11 Alfred Schutz: The Co-construction of Meaning within Professional–Patient Interaction" -- "12 Antonio Gramsci and Pierre Bourdieu: 'Whiteness' and Indigenous Healthcare" -- "Part III: The Mid-Twentieth-Century Theorists" -- "13 Talcott Parsons: His Legacy and the Sociology of Health and Illness" -- "14 Robert Merton: Occupational Roles, Social Status and Health Inequalities" -- "15 George Libman Engel: The Biopsychosocial Model and the Construction of Medical Practice" -- "16 Harold Garfinkel: Lessons on Emergent Behaviours in Complex Organisations" -- "17 Margaret Stacey: The Sociology of Health and Healing" -- "18 Erving Goffman: The Moral Career of Stigma and Mental Illness".

Until recently, the social-technical process of invention has fallen between sociological investigation of the genesis of a new idea (an ideational phenomenon) and the production of a new technology (a material phenomenon). The advent of post-modernism and post-structuralism offered new avenues for theorising invention, accounting for, on the one hand, its material nature, and, on the other, its ideational nature, through the notion of socio-technical ensembles: phenomena constructed through the co-producing, mutually constitutive action of actants (both human and otherwise). This paper argues that despite its potential, theorising within the sociology of science and technology is hampered by insufficient attention to the role of the researcher and the concept and practice of reflexivity. Reflexive practices within this field of knowledge are explored, and drawing on an empirical case study of an antibiotic preparation, a case is made for the necessity of reflexivity in the production of knowledge about invention.

This article reports on a citation-context analysis of journal articles from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Examining publications from the sociology of health and medicine, the study draws a number of conclusions about the state of sociology, inter-country relationships between knowledge workers, and national systems of sociological knowledge production. It finds that core–periphery relations define significant features of sociological work, impacting on citation patterns, inter-country collaboration and the selection of reference materials. Core–periphery relations are also found to influence the sociological production of knowledge across the Australian university sector.

AbstractAustralia was settled as a colony of Britain from the 17th century, and its early history of violent occupation has gradually given way to a relatively peaceful, wealthy, multicultural society. As a post‐colonial country, its people share characteristics with those of Britain, but, as a multicultural society, national identity is increasingly influenced by the cultures of many countries, from both the global North and South. In this paper, the question of Australia's placement as a country of the global North or South is explored. Considerations of geography, the economy, political regimes and national identity are the backdrop to an investigation of Australian scholarship and the attitudes of scholars to the inclusion of Australia as a country of the global South.

Introduction -- PART ONE: ABOUT THE SYSTEM—UNIVERSALISM AND PRIVATISATION -- Chapter One. Universalism in Healthcare and Social Citizenship in Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica -- Chapter Two. Privatisation and Marketisation within a Healthcare System: The Swedish Experience -- PART TWO: THE INSTITUTIONS OF HEALTH -- Chapter Three. 'Looking Outside Their Walls': Exploring Community Health in Chicago Hospitals -- Chapter Four. Contracting-out Care: Nursing Homes in Canada -- PART THREE: GATEKEEPERS IN THE SYSTEM -- Chapter Five. Gatekeepers in a Mixed Private/Public System -- Chapter Six. Creeping Privatisation? Examining Procurement Choices in the 'New' NHS in England -- PART FOUR: THE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS -- Chapter Seven. Safeguarding Through Work Arounds: Socio-materiality and the Organising of Care in a Private Hospital -- Chapter Eight. Reducing Healthcare Costs in Portugal: Outcomes and Implications for Public and Private Medicine -- Chapter Nine. Promoting Health as a Form of Capital: The Transformation of the Danish Healthcare Field as Experienced By Private Healthcare Professionals -- PART FIVE: PATIENTS, CONSUMERS AND CITIZENS -- Chapter Ten. The Imperative of Choice in Australian Healthcare -- Chapter Eleven. The Marketisation of Aged Care: The Impact of Aged Care Reform in Australia -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter Twelve. Navigating Private and Public Healthcare