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Part 1 The social context of health and illnessA very brief history of medicine and society   Introduction   1900 - the dawn of the twentieth century   First World War: 1914-1918   1918-1939   Second World War 1939-1945   1945 to the 21st century   Costs and benefits of 20th century medical innovation   Health inequalities   Medical transformations   Further reading   Revision questions & Extension questionsDefining the doctor′s remit   Introduction   Diagnosis: legitimate and illegitimate illness   Treating diagnosed disease   Defining death   Doing death   Defining doctors as special healers   Overlap with other professionals′ work   Specialization to the point of incoherence?   Medicine′s place in society   Further reading   Revision questions & Extension questionsDefining health, defining disease   Introduction   Biomedical disease model   Limitations of the biomedical model   Defining health   Lay understandings of health   Dimensions of lay models of health   The context of health   Biomedical disease and the value of health   Further reading   Revision questions & Extension questions  Part 2 Getting ill, being illThe social causes of disease   Introduction   Class, ill health and industrial revolution   Social class and inequality   Public policy approaches to inequality   Mechanisms causing health inequalities by class   Ethnicity and inequality   Age and gender   Tackling health inequalities    Future prospects   International health inequalities   Further reading   Revision questions & Extension questionsRisk, choice and lifestyle   Introduction   Individuals and their behaviours   Risk taking and thrill seeking   Risky sex and gay men   Prejudice and blame   Cousin marriage and congenital problems   Risk and preventative medicine   New risks, new diseases - we′re all patients now?   Risk, lifestyle medicine - what next?   Further reading   Revision questions & Extension questionsExperiencing illness   Introduction   The sick role   Sickness as deviance   Stigma and illness   Illness as failure   Biographical disruption and illness narratives   Autopathography   Remaking lives?   Further reading   Revision questions & Extension questionsIll bodies in society   Introduction   Bodies in society   Embodied illness   Dualist thinking   Bodies as machines   Suffering bodies   Impaired bodies and disability   Further reading   Revision & Extension questionsThe process of disability   Introduction   Disability and the life course   Chronic illness, impairment and disability   The social model of disability   The cultural model of disability   Special or universal needs   Further reading   Revision & Extension questionsPart 3 Getting healthcareDoctor-patient relationships   Introduction   Self-care   Appropriate consultation   Compliance, co-operation, conflict   Inverse care law   Evidence on medical consultations   Communicating across the divide   Co-operation and challenge   Further reading   Revision & Extension questionsThe healthcare organization   Introduction   What′s so special about the NHS?   Socialized medicine   Insurance system   Pluralist socialized system   Evaluating the NHS   Reforming the NHS   Clinical governance   Medical dominance   The role of the hospital   Commercial and industrial interests in the NHS   The context of care   Further reading   Revisions & extension questionsChallenges to medicine   Introduction   Changing medical practice   Disappearing doctors, disappearing patients   Doctors′ difficulties   Regulating medicine   Reform from within   Non-human threats   Prospects   Further reading   Revision & Extension questionsConclusion   Introduction   Change and continuity   Effective care: competing priorities   The politics of communication   Uncertainty   Context

This text provides lecturers and students with an analysis of the key questions in medicine and society

Medical sociology : an introduction