E-Book Overview
The sociology of medicine has come a long way from its origins in epidemiology and clinical practice. Like all specialist areas of study it has developed its own internal debates, over the years there has been a shift from a sociology in medicine to a sociology of medicine, and from a sociolgy of medicine, towards a sociology of health and illness. It is to the development of this latter perspective that this volume is addressed.
E-Book Content
New Directions in the Sociology of Health New Directions in the Sociology of Health Edited by Pamela Abbott and Geoff Payne Explorations in Sociology No. 36 The Falmer Press (A member of the Taylor & Francis Group) London • New York • Philadelphia In conjunction with the British Sociological Association UK The Falmer Press, Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG24 0PR USA The Falmer Press, Taylor & Francis Inc., 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007 © British Sociological Association 1990 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publisher. First published 1990 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data New directions in the sociology of health. (Explorations in sociology no. 36) 1. Man. Health. Social aspects I. Abbott, Pamela II. Payne, Geoff III. Series 362.1042 ISBN 0-203-21497-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-27141-6 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 1-85000-786-1 (Print Edition) 1-85000-787-X (pbk) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on request. Jacket design by Caroline Archer Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: Developing the Sociology of Health Pamela Abbott and Geoff Payne 1 Chapter 2 Socio-economic Conditions and Aspects of Health: Respiratory Symptoms in Four West Yorkshire Mining Localities Gary Littlejohn, Michael Peake, Dennis Warwick, Sheila Allen, Valerie Carroll and Caroline Welsh 11 Chapter 3 Opening the ‘Black Box’: Inequalities in Women’s Health Sara Arber 35 Chapter 4 Distance Decay and Information Deprivation: Health Implications for People in Rural Isolation George G.Giarchi 55 Chapter 5 ‘We’re Home Helps because we Care’: The Experience of Home Helps Caring for Elderly People Lorna Warren 68 Chapter 6 Hooked? Media Responses to Tranquillizer Dependence Michael Bury and Jonathan Gabe 85 Chapter 7 Regulating our Favourite Drug Robin Bunton 102 Chapter 8 Say No to Drugs, but Yes to Clean Syringes? Graham Hart 116 Chapter 9 Using Alternative Therapies: Marginal Medicine and Central Concerns Ursula M.Sharma 125 Chapter 10 Caribbean Home Remedies and their Importance for Black Women’s Health Care in Britain Nicki Thorogood 138 Chapter 11 Health and Work in the 1990s: Towards a New Perspective Norma Daykin 151 Chapter 12 Where was Sociology in the Struggle to Re-establish Public Health? Thomas Acton and David Chambers 163 v References 173 Notes on Contributors 192 Authors Index 194 Subject lndex 198 Chapter 1 Introduction: Developing the Sociology of Health Pamela Abbott and Geoff Payne The sociology of medicine has come a long way from its origins in epidemiolog