Mapping the sociology of health and medicine : America, Britain, and Australia compared / Fran Collyer.
By: Collyer, Fran [author.].
Contributor(s): Credo Reference (Firm) [distributor.].
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2014Edition: [Enhanced Credo edition].Description: 1 online resource (48 entries) ; digital files.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781784027872.Subject(s): Medicine, Comparative -- Australia | Medicine, Comparative -- Great Britain | Medicine, Comparative -- United States | Social medicine -- Australia | Social medicine -- Great Britain | Social medicine -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: View this item online| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.
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This title poses sociological questions about the formation of intellectual fields and their social relations, and offers an in-depth, historical study of one of the largest specialities of the discipline of sociology - the sociology of health and medicine - across three countries: the United States of America, Britain and Australia.
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