Title: Patients, physicians, and illness :
Authors: Jaco, E. Gartly; Jaco, E. Gartly
Date: 1979
Publisher: Free Press,
Physical description: xiv, 479 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC class: R
Contents: Doing better and feeling worse : health in the United States / John H. Knowles -- A case for refocussing upstream : the political economy of illness / John B. McKinlay -- Morbidity in the United States / Philip Cole -- Hospital utilization before Medicare-Medicaid : a baseline study / Carol A. Whitehurst and E. Gartly Jaco -- The family in health and health care : a social-behavioral overview / Theodor J. Litman -- Social support and health / Berton H. Kaplan, John C. Cassell, and Susan Gore -- Definitions of health and illness in the light of American values and social structure / Talcott Parsons -- The concept of health status / Andrew C. Twaddle -- Lines of reconstruction and extension in the Parsonian sociology of illness / Eugene B. Gallagher -- The patient's view of the patient's role / Daisy L. Tagliacozzo and Hans O. Mauksch -- Good patients and problem patients : conformity and deviance in a general hospital / Judith Lorber --^ Disability and the recovery process : role of social networks / Richard T. Smith -- Disclosure of terminal illness / Barney G. Glaser -- The changing structure of the medical profession in urban and suburban settings / Alfred E. Miller -- The physician-patient encounter : a process of reality negotiation / W. Timothy Anderson and David T. Helm -- Mother surrogate : after a decade / Sam Schulman -- Physician assistants : an overview of an emerging health profession / Henry B. Perry, III -- The hospital as an organisation / Basil S. Georgopoulos and Floyd C. Mann -- Organizational socialization of hospital employees : a comparative view of occupational groups / Daniel Charles Feldman -- Ecological aspects of hospital patient care : an experimental study / E. Gartly Jaco -- The psychosocial model and long-term care / Herbert Shore -- Consumer and provider views on health policy and health legislation / Elianne Riska and James A. Taylor --^ A framework for the study of national health systems / Jesús M. De Miguel -- Organization theory and health services delivery / Stephen M. Shortell -- The growth of medical technology and bureaucracy : implications for medical care / David Mechanic -- Ethical and existential developments in contemporaneous American medicine : their implications for culture and society / Renée C. Fox -- Public health as social justice / Dan E. Beauchamp.