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Key Concepts in Medical Sociology
This title provides a systematic and accessible introduction to medical sociology, beginning each 1500 word entry with a definition of the concept, then examines its origins, development, strengths and weaknesses, offering further reading guidance for independent learning, and drawing on international literature and examples.
The Sociology of Medical Science and Technology
Contributors examine the relationship between science and clinical practice; the development, assessment and regulation of health care technologies; and the implications of the 'new genetics'.
Medical Work, Medical Knowledge and Health Care
This Reader introduces students of sociology and health care to the changing fields of medical knowledge and medical work. Provides a chronicle of reseach in the field of medical knowledge, medical work and health care over the past 25 years. Summarises changes in how health care was delivered and how medical knowledge and practice were conceptualised over this period. Section introductions by the editors situate the articles within a wider body of literature. A valuable resource for student of sociiology, social policy, social work, health policy or health care.
Animal, Vegetable, or Woman?
Challenges current claims that humans ought to be vegetarians because animals have moral standing.
Women and Medicine
The medical profession is undergoing profound changes. Among them is the rapidly increasing proportion of women doctors in what was once a male-dominated field. The focus of this research has been to examine the potential impact of this change on medicine as a whole. The research findings set out in this report show clearly that the increase in the proportion of women in the UK medical profession over the next decade will have organisational and economic implications, and exert an impact on workforce design that will need further detailed analysis. It is hoped that this report will help stimulate informed discussion and provide pointers to the areas that need most urgent attention.
Women and Modern Medicine
For women, medicine came to offer not just treatment in the event of illness but the possibilities of participation in medical practise, of shaping social policies and political understandings, and of altering the biological imperatives of their bodies. The essays in this collection explore various ways in which women responded to these challenges and opportunities and sought to use the power of modernising Western medicine to further their individual and gender interests.
Doctors and Demonstrators
Since Roe v. Wade, abortion has continued to be a divisive political issue in the United States. In contrast, it has remained primarily a medical issue in Britain and Canada despite the countries’ shared heritage. Doctors and Demonstrators looks beyond simplistic cultural or religious explanations to find out why abortion politics and policies differ so dramatically in these otherwise similar countries. Drew Halfmann argues that political institutions are the key. In the United States, federalism, judicial review, and a private health care system contributed to the public definition of abortion as an individual right rather than a medical necessity. Meanwhile, Halfmann explains, the porous structure of American political parties gave pro-choice and pro-life groups the opportunity to move the issue onto the political agenda. A groundbreaking study of the complex legal and political factors behind the evolution of abortion policy, Doctors and Demonstrators will be vital for anyone trying to understand this contentious issue.
To the Ends of the Earth
Focusing both on international comparisons and on the personal histories of many of the pioneers, Bonner shows how European and American women gradually broke through the wall of resistance to women in medicine many choosing initially between inferior women-only institutions at home (e.g. pre-Civil War America, Tsarist Russia, Victorian England) and integrated medical schools in Switzerland and France.
