The Sociology of Health and Illness : A Reader

List of illustrations ix Notes on contributors xi Series editor's preface xiv Acknowledgements xvi Michael Bury and Jonathan Gabe GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1(2) PART ONE Health beliefs and knowledge 3(92) 1 Claudine Herzlich THE INDIVIDUAL, THE WAY OF LIFE AND THE GENESIS OF ILLNESS 27(9) 2 Mildred Blaxter WHY DO THE VICTIMS BLAME THEMSELVES? 36(11) 3 Charlie Davison, George Davey Smith and Stephen Frankel LAY EPIDEMIOLOGY AND THE PREVENTION PARADOX: THE IMPLICATIONS OF CORONARY CANDIDACY FOR HEALTH EDUCATION 47(12) 4 Michael Calnan "LIFESTYLE" AND ITS SOCIAL MEANING 59(10) 5 Phil Brown POPULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY, TOXIC WASTE ANt SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 69(13) 6 Evelyn Parsons and Paul Atkinson LAY CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENETIC RISK 82(13) PART TWO Inequalities and patterning of health and illness 95(78) 7 Lisa F. Berkman, Thomas Glass, Ian Brissette and Teresa E. Seeman FROM SOCIAL INTEGRATION TO HEALTH: DURKHEIM IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM 99(13) 8 Richard G. Wilkinson THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITION: FROM MATERIAL SCARCITY TO SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE? 112(10) 9 Denny Vågerö and Raymond Illsley EXPLAINING HEALTH INEQUALITIES: BEYOND BLACK AND BARKER 122(12) 10 M.E.J. Wadsworth HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN THE LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVE 134(11) 11 James Y. Nazroo GENETIC, CULTURAL OR SOCIO-ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY? EXPLAINING ETHNIC INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH 145(16) 12 Sally Marintyre, Kate Hunt and Helen Sweeting GENDER DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH: ARE THINGS REALLY AS SIMPLE AS THEY SEEM? 161(12) PART THREE Professional and patient interaction 173(70) 13 Eliot Freidson THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF ILLNESS 177(8) 14 Ellen Annandale WORKING ON THE FRONT-LINE: RISK CULTURE AND NURSING IN THE NEW NHS 185(12) 15 Deborah Lupton CONSUMERISM, REFLEXIVITY AND THE MEDICAL ENCOUNTER 197(13) 16 David Silverman GOING PRIVATE: CEREMONIAL FORMS IN A MEDICAL ONCOLOGY CLINIC 210(11) 17 Sarah Cant and Ursula Sharma ANEW MEDICAL PLURALISM? 221(8) 18 Cathy Charles, Amiram Gafni and Tim Whelan DECISION MAKING IN THE PHYSICIAN-PATIENT ENCOUNTER: REVISITING THE SHARED TREATMENT DECISION-MAKING MODEL 229(14) PART FOUR Chronic illness and disability 243(72) 19 Gareth Williams THE GENESIS OF CHRONIC ILLNESS: NARRATIVE RECONSTRUCTION 247(9) 20 Michael P. Kelly and David Field MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY, CHRONIC ILLNESS AND THE BODY 256(10) 21 Michael Bury DEFINING AND RESEARCHING DISABILITY: CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES 266(11) 22 Mike Oliver DEFINING IMPAIRMENT AND DISABILITY: ISSUES AT STAKE 277(14) 23 Danièle Carricaburu and Janine Pierret FROM BIOGRAPHICAL DISRUPTION TO BIOGRAPHICAL REINFORCEMENT: THE CASE OF HIV-POSITIVE MEN 291(13) 24 Arthur Frank WHEN BODIES NEED VOICES 304(11) PART FIVE Evaluation and politics of health care 315(66) 25 Jonathan Gabe CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE BRITISH NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE 319(10) 26 Stephen Harrison THE POLITICS OF EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 329(12) 27 Donald W. Light and David Hughes A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON RATIONING: POWER RHETORIC AND SITUATED PRACTICES 341(12) 28 Ray Fitzpatrick and Mary Boulton QUALITATIVE METHODS FOR ASSESSING HEALTH CARE 353(12) 29 Alistair Howitt and David Armstrong IMPLEMENTING EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINL IN GENERAL PRACTICE: AUDIT AND QUALITATIVE STUDY OF ANTI-THROMBOTIC TREATMENT FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION 365(7) 30 Katie Featherstone and Jenny L. Donovan RANDOM ALLOCATION OR ALLOCATION AT RANDOM? PATIENTS' PERSPECTIVES OF PARTICIPATION IN A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL 372(9) Index 381