| Edition |
[Enhanced Credo edition]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (48 entries) ; digital files. |
|
text rdacontent |
|
electronic isbdmedia |
|
online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
List of Tables -- Introduction -- Theoretical Frameworks and Beginnings -- Theoretical and methodological approaches to the field -- On the processes of intellectual change and disciplinary formation -- The nature of disciplines -- The institutionalisation of three sociologies -- Reflections on the institutionalisation process -- Situated disciplines: Other forms of social structure -- The chapters ahead -- Past and Present: Three National Sociologies of Health and Medicine -- The sociology of health and medicine in the United States -- The sociology of health and medicine in the United Kingdom -- The sociology of health and medicine in Australia -- The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia compared -- Disciplines, Professions and Specialities -- Sociology and its specialities -- The Study and Its Methods -- The research questions -- The study design -- The countries -- The journals -- The selection of papers -- The Content Analysis -- Key variables -- National Trends in the Sociology of Health and Medicine since 1990 -- Institutional context -- Gender -- Disciplines and identity -- Identities, work units and disciplinary boundaries -- The sociologists: Identity, method and theory -- Authorship teams -- Citation patterns -- Subjects, interests and concerns -- Sociological theories -- The funding of research -- Objectivity, sympathy, and critical distance from medicine -- Old Roads and New Pathways: Reflections, Conclusions and a Way Forward -- Disciplines and specialities -- Sociology's external borders -- National differences -- Identity, inclusion and exclusion -- One sociology of health and medicine or three? -- A way forward -- References. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
This title poses sociological questions about the formation of intellectual fields and their social relations, and offers an in-depth, historical study of one of the largest specialities of the discipline of sociology - the sociology of health and medicine - across three countries: the United States of America, Britain and Australia. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Medicine, Comparative -- Australia.
|
|
Medicine, Comparative -- Great Britain.
|
|
Medicine, Comparative -- United States.
|
|
Social medicine -- Australia.
|
|
Social medicine -- Great Britain.
|
|
Social medicine -- United States.
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Added Author |
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: 0230320449 9780230320444 (DLC) 2012010265 viii, 325 pages |
| ISBN |
9781784027872 electronic version |
|
9780230320444 hardback |
|
