Health Sociology
Paperback Engels 2010 1e druk 9781741032369Samenvatting
For nursing, health sciences and upper level undergraduate sociology and social work courses.
Health Sociology: an Australian perspective is a fully Australian text with broad coverage of current issues in health sociology.
The text provides students with sociological perspectives on health, employing diverse and exciting areas of sociological analysis. The approach to health and illness in this book differs from biomedical models of understanding illness.
Discussion Questions and Case Studies provide students with issues and scenarios that will build their knowledge and understanding of Health Sociology through discussion and real life issues.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
- PART I: INTRODUCTION: SOCIOLOGY AND HEALTH
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical approaches to health and illness
- PART II: THE SOCIAL EXPERIENCE OF HEALTH, ILLNESS AND DISABILITY
- 3. The sociology of the body
- 4. Mental illness in Australian society
- 5. Disability: prevalence, policy and theory
- 6. An older Australia: ageing and health
- 7. Mortalities: the Australian way of death, dying and bereavement
- PART III: THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION AND PRODUCTION OF HEALTH
- 8. The Australian health care system
- 9. The health care occupations: medicine and nursing
- 10. Alternative health practices
- 11. Inequalities of health in Australian society
- PART IV: CONCLUSION
- 12. Conclusion
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan
