Death and dying
Chapter 15. Death and dying Hannah Cooke KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Arguments for and against the proposition that we have become a ‘death-denying’ society ▪ Rationalist and bureaucratic discourses about death…
Social responses to illness and disability
Chapter 14. Social responses to illness and disability Susan Philpin KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Deviance and labelling perspectives ▪ The application of labelling perspectives to mental illness ▪ Stigma ▪ Moral…
Experiencing ill-health
Chapter 13. Experiencing ill-health Susan Philpin KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Talcott Parsons and the sick role ▪ The experience of chronic illness ▪ Strauss’s framework of problems of chronic illness ▪…
Lay understandings of health and risk
Chapter 12. Lay understandings of health and riska changing picture Lindsay Prior KEY CONCEPTS ▪ The changing status of lay understandings of health and risk ▪ Being-at-risk of a ‘cancer…
Understandings of health, illness, risk and bodies
Chapter 11. Understandings of health, illness, risk and bodies Susan Philpin KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Health professional perspectives of health and illness ▪ Lay concepts of health and illness causation ▪…
Partnerships and care in the community
Chapter 10. Partnerships and care in the community Susan Lambert KEY CONCEPTS ▪ The policy context of social care ▪ The mixed economy of care ▪ Partnership working ▪ The…
Nursing and nursing professionalism
Chapter 9. Nursing and nursing professionalism Hannah Cooke KEY CONCEPTS ▪ The origins and development of modern nursing ▪ Nursing as women’s work ▪ Nursing and professionalism ▪ The changing…
Power and communication in healthcare
Chapter 8. Power and communication in healthcare Martin Johnson KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Nurses are weak in relation to medicine ▪ Patients often fail to exploit their power ▪ Goals of…
Healthcare policy and organizational change
Chapter 7. Healthcare policy and organizational change Gillian Olumide and Hannah Cooke KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Political beliefs and welfare ▪ The development of the welfare state ▪ The development of…
Thinking sociologically about religion and health
Chapter 3. Thinking sociologically about religion and health Hannah Cooke KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Secularization ▪ Theodicy: explaining suffering ▪ Church, sect and cult ▪ ‘New age’ beliefs and fundamentalism ▪…
