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Routledge
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Routledge
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"...It is well-written and well-referenced...this is an important, innovative, enjoyable textbook which can be highly recommended for use in undergraduate and postgraduate sociology courses on health related subjects, and which will be of value in courses on women's studies and gender. It will also be of interest to inquiring health care practitioners of whatever persuasion." - Sociology "This... Read more
List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements Introduction: Some theoretical and methodological thoughts Part I Health and Healing in Other Societies The Plurality of Healing Systems in Tudor and Stuart England Eighteenth-Century Foundations for the Development of Biomedicine Hospitals and Public Health: Control, Exploitation and the Development of Medical Knowledge Organizing the Division of Labour in Health Care Laying the Basis for the National Health Service The State and the Division of Health Labour: the National Health Service Part II Introduction and Biological Base Concepts of Health and the Nature of Healing Knowledge (1): Lay Concepts of Health and Illness Concepts of Health and the Nature of Healing Knowledge (2): Alternative Healing Systems Concepts of Healing and the Nature of Healing Knowledge (3): Biomedicine and Beyond Social Organization of Health Care and the Division of Paid Health Labour Unpaid Workers in the Division of Health Labour (1): the Patients Unpaid Workers in the Division of Health Labour (2): the Unpaid Carers Health Care and Late Twentieth-Century Capitalism Reproduction for the Twenty-First Century References and Bibliography Index
Biography
Professor Margaret Stacey
