Mapping the Sociology of Health and Medicine: America, Britain and Australia Compared
Mapping the Sociology of Health and Medicine: America, Britain and Australia Compared
Editor/Author
Collyer, Fran
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Ltd
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-230-32044-4
Category: Social Sciences - Sociology
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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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Table of 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