Mapping the sociology of health and medicine : America, Britain, and Australia compared
Collyer, Fran2014
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Abstract: This title poses sociological questions about the formation of intellectual fields and their social relations, and offers an in-depth, historical study of one of the largest specialities of the discipline of sociology - the sociology of health and medicine - across three countries: the United States of America, Britain and Australia.
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Author:
Collyer, Fran, authorCredo Reference (Firm), distributor
Edition:
[Enhanced Credo edition].
Imprint:
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2014.[Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire] ; [New York, N.Y.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Collation:
1 online resource (48 entries) ; digital files.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.Description based on title page of print version.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Print version: viii, 325 pages
Contents:
List of Tables -- Introduction -- Theoretical Frameworks and Beginnings -- Theoretical and methodological approaches to the field -- On the processes of intellectual change and disciplinary formation -- The nature of disciplines -- The institutionalisation of three sociologies -- Reflections on the institutionalisation process -- Situated disciplines: Other forms of social structure -- The chapters ahead -- Past and Present: Three National Sociologies of Health and Medicine -- The sociology of health and medicine in the United States -- The sociology of health and medicine in the United Kingdom -- The sociology of health and medicine in Australia -- The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia compared -- Disciplines, Professions and Specialities -- Sociology and its specialities -- The Study and Its Methods -- The research questions -- The study design -- The countries -- The journals -- The selection of papers -- The Content Analysis -- Key variables -- National Trends in the Sociology of Health and Medicine since 1990 -- Institutional context -- Gender -- Disciplines and identity -- Identities, work units and disciplinary boundaries -- The sociologists: Identity, method and theory -- Authorship teams -- Citation patterns -- Subjects, interests and concerns -- Sociological theories -- The funding of research -- Objectivity, sympathy, and critical distance from medicine -- Old Roads and New Pathways: Reflections, Conclusions and a Way Forward -- Disciplines and specialities -- Sociology's external borders -- National differences -- Identity, inclusion and exclusion -- One sociology of health and medicine or three? -- A way forward -- References.
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ISBN:
9781784027872 (electronic version)9780230320444 (hardback)
Dewey class:
362.1
LC class:
RA418.3.U6
Language:
English
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BRN:
502145
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