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Sociology of Health and Illness

Ashley Frawley Orcid Logo

The Textbook of Health and Social Care, Pages: 3 - 19

Swansea University Author: Ashley Frawley Orcid Logo

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This chapter introduces the sociology of health and illness, first by considering the meaning of the‘sociological imagination’ and associated importance of the concept of context to understandinghuman social life. It then discusses three contexts of health: socio-economic, institutional/professional...

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Published in: The Textbook of Health and Social Care
Published: London Sage 2020
Online Access: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-textbook-of-health-and-social-care/book261690#contents
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54796
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Abstract: This chapter introduces the sociology of health and illness, first by considering the meaning of the‘sociological imagination’ and associated importance of the concept of context to understandinghuman social life. It then discusses three contexts of health: socio-economic, institutional/professionaland cultural. Within these contexts a number of key issues in the sociology of healthand illness are considered: the social determinants of health, health Inequalities, challenges tomedical authority, social construction and health panics, medicalisation and growing culturalpreoccupations with health risks.
Start Page: 3
End Page: 19