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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.
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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
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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
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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