Book chapter 1059 views
Sociology of Health and Illness
Ashley Frawley 
The Textbook of Health and Social Care, Pages: 3 - 19
Swansea University Author:
Ashley Frawley
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/professional...
| 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 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| 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 |