Health and Society. Critical and contemporary perspectives

      Аннотация: This book aims to critically examine the contribution of the discipline of sociology and a number of theoretical sociological perspectives, from classical to postmodern to our understanding of health, illness and medicine. Specifically, the broad areas covered in this book include: critical perspectives on key sociological theories and themes in the sociology of health and illness including the profession of medicine, doctor-patient relationships, medicalisation, challenges to biomedicine, lay perspectives and beliefs, contemporary aspects such as health promotion, the new genetics, and complementary and alternative medicine. It is my hope that this book will enable you the reader to reflect critically on the sociological perspectives and concepts to your own context and experience of health, medicine, illness and public health practice.

Ключевые слова: lay perspectives, poverty and health, uniqueness of individuals, Parsons' and Goffman's theories, dysfunctional society and health issues, modernism and postmodernism in health, disease surveillance and sociological point of view, doctors and patients, nurses and patients, challenging the medical model, the rise of complementary and alternative medicine, health promotion and sociology, integration of modern medicine with complementary and alternative medicine, consumerism in health, sociology and the new genetics, key concepts in sociology, dominance of biomedicine, dominance of doctors, sociological approach in public health, health beliefs and what makes meaning to the individual and society, sociological approach in solving public health challenges, post modern society and medicine