Beschreibung:
A lively and critical account of the impact of social change on the experience of health and illness. Also examines the different sociological perspectives that have been used to analyse health matters and highlights those ripe for revision.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 From illness behaviour to health beliefs and knowledge; Chapter 3 Inequalities in health; Chapter 4 Doctors, patients and interaction in health care; Chapter 5 Chronic illness and disability; Chapter 6 Death and dying; Chapter 7 The body, health and risk;