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Mapping the sociology of health and medicine : America, Britain, and Australia compared
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Mapping the sociology of health and medicine : America, Britain, and Australia compared / Fran Collyer.
ISBN
9781784027872
9780230320444
Edition
[Enhanced Credo edition].
Publication
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2014.
[Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire] ; [New York, N.Y.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (48 entries) ; digital files.
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Summary
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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Credo reference.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 16, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
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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