The Palgrave handbook of social theory in health, illness and medicine

Abstract

"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".