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Re-examining health, healthcare and societal health using the latest data and research, this book addresses definitions of health, changes in health over time and the contribution of healthcare. It also suggests ways of effectively tackling obstacles to improving health and healthcare in 21st century Britain.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Value of Labour-Power and Health -- 2 Durkheim and Social Realism: An Approach to Health and Illness -- 3 Bodies of Knowledge: Foucault and the Problem of Human Anatomy -- 4 The Lost Subject of Medical Sociology -- 5 Parsons, Role Theory, and Health Interaction -- 6 Goffman, Interactionism, and the Management of Stigma in Everyday Life -- 7 Habermas and the Power of Medical Expertise -- 8 Rationalism, Bureaucracy, and the Organization of the Health Services: Max Weber's Contribution to Understanding Modern Health Care Systems -- 9 Political Science and Health Policy -- Index.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Theoretical Perspectives on the Shame and Blame. - Chapter 3. Asymmetric Lifeworld Encounters.- Chapter 4. The Neglected Contributions of Middle-Range Social Theory.- Chapter 5. The Salience of Macrosociology. - Chapter 6. Towards a Sociology of Shaming and Blaming.- Chapter 7.Conclusion.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Social Aspects of Health and Disease -- 1 Society and Changing Patterns of Health and Illness -- Introduction -- Variation in Disease Patterns in Human Society -- Explaining Changes in Disease Prevalence -- The Historical Role of Medicine -- Disease Rates and Social Factors in Modern Society -- The Economy and Health Policy in Modern Society -- Current Health Challenges -- References -- 2 Social Determinants of Health -- Introduction -- Principal Social Determinants of Health in the Twenty-First Century -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Globalization and Health -- Introduction -- The Processes of Globalization -- Global Health -- The Globalized Health Care Workforce -- Globalization and Health Care -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Social Factors in Medical Practice -- 4 Health and Illness Behaviour -- Introduction -- Definitions of 'Lay' Perceptions of Health, Illness and Disease -- Help-Seeking Practices -- Different Health Care Systems -- Summary -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Doctor-Patient Relationships -- Introduction -- Historical Changes in Doctor-Patient Relationships -- Current Models of the Doctor-Patient Relationship -- Implementing Shared Decision-Making -- Variations in Relationships between Countries -- Changing Context of Doctor-Patient Relationships -- References -- 6 Long-Term Illness and Disability -- Introduction -- Sociological Approaches to the Study of Long-Term Conditions -- The Role of Medicine, Self-Management and Empowerment -- Understanding the Lived Experience of Long-Term Conditions -- Individual Stigma or Social Oppression? -- Challenging the Personal Tragedy Model of Disability -- Medical versus Social Models of Disability -- The Middle Ground.

The contribution of the German sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas has proved seminal for attempts to understand the nature of social change in the context of global capitalism. This book provides an accessible introduction to his work and shows how his theories can be fruitfully applied to a wide range of topics in the sociology of health and illness including: * lay health knowledge * doctor-patient interaction* health care decision-making * health inequalities * new social movements in health * health care rationing * the Foucault perspective. Habermas, Critical Theory and Health wi

1. Foucault, health and healthcare / Alan Petersen -- 2. Consuming bodies : Zygmunt Bauman on the difference between fitness and health / Paul Higgs -- 3. Jurgen Habermas : politics and morality in health and medicine / Gemma Edwards -- 4. Luhmann's social systems theory, health and illness / Barry Gibson and Olga Boiko -- 5. Bourdieu and the impact of health and illness in the lifeworld / Sasha Scambler -- 6. Merleau-Ponty, medicine and the body / Nick Crossley -- 7. World systems theory and the epidemiological transition / Martin Hyde and Anthony Rosie -- 8. Archer, morphogenesis and the role of agency in the sociology of health inequalities / Graham Scambler -- 9. Deleuze and Guattari / Nick J. Fox -- 10. Health and medicine in the information age : Castells, informational capitalism and the network society / Simon J. Williams.