The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine

1. Front Matter

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2. The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks

   1. The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks

      • Fran Collyer, Graham Scambler

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3. The Nineteenth-Century Theorists

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forgotten Women in the Study of Gender and Health

      • Ellen Annandale

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   3. Karl Marx and Frederich Engels: Capitalism, Health and the Healthcare Industry

      • Fran Collyer

      Pages 35-58

   4. Florence Nightingale: A Research-Based Approach to Health, Healthcare and Hospital Safety

      • Lynn McDonald

      Pages 59-74

   5. Émile Durkheim: Social Order and Public Health

      • Kevin Dew

      Pages 75-90

   6. Émile Durkheim and Thomas Luckmann: Religion, Post-Christian Spirituality and Mental Health

      • Rosemary L. Aird

      Pages 91-106

   7. George Herbert Mead: Meanings and Selves in Illness

      • Linda Liska Belgrave, Kathy Charmaz

      Pages 107-123

   8. Max Weber: Bureaucracy, Formal Rationality and the Modern Hospital

      • William C. Cockerham

      Pages 124-138

4. The Early Twentieth-Century Theorists

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Ludwik Fleck: Thought Collectives and the Sociology of Medical Knowledge

      • Kevin White

      Pages 141-157

   3. Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman: Civilised-Dramaturgical Bodies, Social Status and Health Inequalities

      • Peter Freund

      Pages 158-173

   4. Alfred Schutz: The Co-construction of Meaning within Professional-Patient Interaction

      • Patrick Brown

      Pages 174-190

   5. Antonio Gramsci and Pierre Bourdieu: ‘Whiteness’ and Indigenous Healthcare

      • Angela Durey

      Pages 191-204

5. The Mid-Twentieth-Century Theorists

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Talcott Parsons: His Legacy and the Sociology of Health and Illness

      • Eileen Willis

      Pages 207-221

   3. Robert Merton: Occupational Roles, Social Status and Health Inequalities

      • Johannes Siegrist

      Pages 222-235

   4. George Libman Engel: The Biopsychosocial Model and the Construction of Medical Practice

      • Marilys Guillemin, Emma Barnard

      Pages 236-250

   5. Harold Garfinkel: Lessons on Emergent Behaviours in Complex Organisations

      • Peter Nugus, Jeffrey Braithwaite

      Pages 251-261

This wide-reaching handbook offers a new perspective on the sociology of health, illness and medicine by stressing the importance of social theory. Examining a range of classic and contemporary female and male theorists from across the globe, it explores various issues including chronic illness, counselling and the rising problems of obesity.

• social theory
• social theorists
• contemporary social theorists
• classical social theorists
• health
• illness
• medicine
• healthcare
• health care
• sociology
• Marx
• Durkheim
• Weber
• Illich
• Goffman
• Nightingale
• Witz
• Gramsci
• Bourdieu
• Parsons
• childhood
• globalization
• health policy
• Institution
• interaction
• Max Weber
• Niklas Luhmann
• organization
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Public Health
• religion
• systems theory

• University of Sydney, Australia

  Fran Collyer

Rosemary Aird, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Gary L Albrecht, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Joana Almeida, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ellen Annandale, University of York, UK Emma Barnard, University of Melbourne, Australia Linda Belgrave, University of Miami, USA Simon Bishop, Nottingham University Business School, UK Hannah Bradby, University of Warwick, UK Jeffrey Braithwaite, University of New South Wales, Australia Patrick Brown, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ivy Bourgeault, The University of Ottawa, Canada Michael Calnan, University of Kent, UK Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University, USA David Coburn, University of Toronto, Canada William C. Cockerham, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Fran Collyer, University of Sydney, Australia Joseph E. Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, USA Fernando De Maio, DePaul University, USA Kevin Dew, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Angela Durey, Curtin University, Australia Michael Fine, Macquarie University, Australia Peter Freund, Montclair State University, USA Jonathan Gabe, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barry Gibson, University of Sheffield, UK Marilys Guillemin, University of Melbourne, Australia Julie Henderson, Flinders University, Australia Maree Herrett, Independent Scholar, Australia Brian Hinote, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Suy-in Hor, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Katie Hughes, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia Rick Iedema, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Louise Locock, University of Oxford, UK Deborah Lupton, University of Canberra, Australia Lynn McDonald, University of Guelph, Canada Samantha Meyer, University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Nugus, McGill University, Canada Meryl Pearce, James Cook University, Australia Bernice A. Pescosolido, Indiana University, USA Mikael Rostila, Stockholm University, Sweden Trudy Rudge, University of Sydney, Australia Graham Scambler, University College London, UK Toni Schofield, University of Sydney, Australia John Scott, University of New England, Australia Johannes Siegrist, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany Paul Ward, Flinders University, Australia Justin Waring, University of Warwick, UK Kevin White, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australia Heather Whiteside, Simon Fraser University, Canada Simon J. Williams, University of Warwick, UK Eileen Willis, Flinders University, Australia Evan Willis, Independent Scholar, Australia Sue Ziebland, University of Oxford, UK

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