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Tables of Contents for Outline of Sociology As Applied to Medicine
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the fifth edition
ix
Introduction
1
2
Scope of the book
2
1
Going to the doctor
3
12
The experience of symptoms
3
1
Illness behaviour
4
5
Importance of illness behaviour for the doctor
9
1
Illness behaviour and the medical model
10
5
Measuring health and illness
15
9
Mortality
15
2
Morbidity prevalence studies
17
1
Sickness absence rates
17
1
Caseload
18
1
Measures of functioning
19
1
Self-report measures
19
1
Subjective health measures
20
1
Quality of life measures
21
1
Health and expectations
22
1
Measuring health
23
1
Social causes of illness
24
15
Causal models
24
1
Establishing a causal relationship
25
2
Social factors: indirect effects
27
3
Social factors: direct effects
30
2
Social integration
32
1
Social support
33
3
Social capital
36
1
Life events
37
2
Labelling behaviour
39
9
Primary deviance
39
1
Secondary deviance
40
2
Stigma
42
1
Disablement
43
2
Labelling and psychiatric disease
45
3
Social patterns of illness
48
11
Explaining illness patterns
48
1
Historical changes
49
1
Geography
50
1
Occupation
51
1
Gender
52
2
Ethnicity
54
2
Unemployment
56
3
Social patterns of illness: II
59
11
Age
59
1
Social class
60
9
The life course
69
1
Coping with illness
70
8
Managing labels
70
2
Coping with chronic illness
72
5
Carers and coping
77
1
Models of illness
78
11
Exploring abdominal pain
78
3
Symptoms and pathology
81
1
Biographical or patient-centred medicine
82
2
Surveillance medicine
84
1
Alternative models of illness
85
1
Models of the doctor--patient relationship
85
4
Types of health care
89
11
Self-care
89
1
Family care
90
2
The role of carers
92
1
Community care
93
1
Self-help groups
94
1
Professional care
95
5
Medicine, the professions and clinical autonomy
100
13
Controlling information
101
2
Limiting costs
103
2
Economic incentives
105
4
Evaluating doctors' decisions
109
3
Clinical governance
112
1
Organizing health care
113
12
Allocating scarce resources
113
5
Government intervention in health care
118
2
Managed competition
120
1
The internal market
121
2
The future of health care
123
2
Evaluating health care
125
13
Is the health care system effective/efficient?
125
5
Does the health care system meet the 'real' needs of its consumers?
130
1
Is the allocation of health care fair?
131
3
Is health care iatrogenic?
134
4
The social role of medicine
138
9
Defining disease
138
1
Normality in medicine
139
2
The biological basis of disease
141
1
The doctor as agent of social control
142
4
Medicine and society
146
1
Bibliography
147
10
Index
157