PART ONE: HEALTH SOCIOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL MODEL OF HEALTH
1. Imagining Health Problems as Social Issues
2. Theorising Health: Major Theoretical Perspectives in Health Sociology
3. Well-being and Wellness
PART TWO: THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS
4. Global Public Health
5. The Class Origins of Health Inequality
6. Workplace Health
7. Gendered Health
8. Indigenous Health: The Perpetuation of Inequality
9. Ethnicity, Health and Multiculturalism
10. Rural Health
11. Young People’s Health (NEW)
PART THREE: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS
12. The Social Origins of Obesity (NEW)
13. The Medicalisation of Deviance
14. Mental Illness: Understandings, Experience and Service Provision
15. The Illness Experience: Lay Perspectives, Disability, and Chronic Illness
16. Drug Use and Abuse in Australia: Social Origins, Impacts and Responses
17. Ageing, Health, and the Demographic Revolution
18. Medical Technology (NEW)
19. Media and Health: Moral Panics, Miracles and Medicalisation
PART FOUR: THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION OF HEALTH CARE: PROFESSIONS, POLITICS AND POLICIES
20. Power, Politics and Health Care
21. Challenges to Medical Dominance
22. The Sociology of Nursing
23. The Sociology of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
24. Jostling for Position: A Sociology of Allied Health
25. A Sociology of Health Promotion
Appendix: Tips on Planning, Writing and Referencing a Sociology Essay
Glossary
Index