HealthWritten in a clear, accessible style, Health introduces students to the valuable contribution sociologists have made to understanding health, illness and disease. In so doing, it challenges the adequacy of biomedical models, contrasting them with explanations offered by positivist, interactionist, structuralist and feminist sociologists. |
Contents
1 Defining health | 1 |
2 Measuring health | 25 |
3 Explaining health | 51 |
4 Socialpositivist explanations | 73 |
5 Interactionist explanations | 90 |
6 Structuralist explanations | 110 |
7 Perspectives on health policy | 129 |
References | 142 |
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