Mapping the Sociology of Health and Medicine [electronic resource] : America, Britain and Australia Compared /
Collyer, F.author.
Credo Reference (Firm),distributor.
This book studies the sociology of health and medicine across three different countries, the USA, UK and Australia, examining the nature of disciplines and their specialties and posing sociological questions about the formation of intellectual fields and their social relations.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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.
This book studies the sociology of health and medicine across three different countries, the USA, UK and Australia, examining the nature of disciplines and their specialties and posing sociological questions about the formation of intellectual fields and their social relations.
Social medicine.
Medicine.
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Medical Sociology.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Sociology, general.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.


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