Sociology in Practice for Health Care Professionals

RON IPHOFEN is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wales, Bangor, where he teaches on a range of health professional courses. He has acted as consultant on curriculum and organisational development, learning outcomes and teaching quality assessment and he is a subject specialist assessor for the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. FIONA POLAND is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wales, Bangor. As National Chair of the Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector, she promotes the development of information networks and training in the dissemination of good practice in community settings.

The Nature of Sociology: Explanations and Applications.- The Power to Care.- Learning to Care: A Lifetime of Socialisation.- The Basis of Informal Care: Families and Households.- Healthy Learning.- Working for Health.- Equal and Unequal Opportunities.- Inherited Health.- Natural Carers: Sex and Gender.- Common and Uncommon Cultures.- Beliefs, Moralities and Ideologies of Care.- Controlling Conditions.- The Costs of 'Free' Time.- Well-Fare, Ill-Fare, How Fair?.- Modelling Health Care Sociologically.- References.- Index.