Dedication
Acknowledgements
Thinking Sociologically about Health and Healthcare
PART I: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE
Introduction; The Political Economy of Health and Health Care; Ellen Annandale
The Medicalisation of Reproduction; Pamela Abbott, Claire Wallace and Melissa Tyler
The Social Role of Medicine; David Armstrong
The Sociological Construction of Medicine; Paul Atkinson
The Sociological Imagination; Charles Wright Mills
PART II: MAKING SENSE OF HEALTH
Introduction; Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches; Keith F. Punch
Historical Data for Health Inequalities; Sara Mallinson, Jennie Popay, Eva Elliot, Sharon Bennett, Lisa Bostock, Anthony Gatrell, Carol Thomas and Gareth Williams Practice-based Evidence; Nick J. Fox
'Traditional' and 'Emancipatory' Research; Beth Humphries
Women Respondents in Health Research; Helen Roberts
Ethics and Ethics Committees; Carole Truman
PART III: INEQUALITIES AND DIVERSITY IN HEALTH
Introduction; The Politics of Victim Blaming; Robert Crawford
The Determinants of Geographical Inequalities in Health; Heather Joshi, Richard D. Wiggins, Mel Bartley, Richard Mitchell, Simon Gleave and Kevin Lynch
Children Reflecting on Health; Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Sarah Cunningham-Burley and John Davis
Gender and Women's Health; Lesley Doyal
Measuring and Understanding Ethnic Inequalities in Health; Mel Bartley
PART IV: BODIES, MINDS AND EMOTIONS
Introduction; The Body, Medicine and Death; Deborah Lupton
'Enhancing' the Body; Peter Conrad and Heather T. Jacobson
Humour and Illness; Alison Chapple and Sue Ziebland
Anorexia as Disability; Stephanie Tierney
'Dirty Work'; Ian Shaw
Emotion Work in Midwifery; Billie Hunter
PART V: POWER, PROFESSIONS AND PRACTICE
Introduction; The Characteristics of a Profession; Eliot Friedson
The Professionalisation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Merrijoy Kelner, Beverly Wellman, Heather Boon and Sandy Welsh
The Feminisation of Dentistry; Tracey L. Adams
Occupational Boundaries in the Operating Theatre; Stephen Timmons and Judith Tanner
Choosing to be Childfree; Annily Campbell
The Internet and the Doctor-Patient Relationship; Alex Broom.