Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine

Edited by Alan Petersen, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine 1
Alan Petersen

PART I MAJOR THEORETICAL INFLUENCES AND PERSPECTIVES
2 Constructing the boundaries of health sociology 28
Fran Collyer
3 Critical theories in sociologies of health and medicine 47
Graham Scambler
4 New materialist perspectives on health, illness and health care 62
Nick J. Fox
5 Sociologies of health and gender 76
Ellen Annandale
6 Biomedicalisation revisited: concepts and practices 91
Adele E. Clarke, Melanie Jeske, Janet K. Shim, and Laura Mamo
7 Health inequalities 110
Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan
8 Illness narratives: from analysis to answerability 124
Danielle Spencer and Arthur Frank

PART II SIGNIFICANT EMPIRICAL RESEARCH THEMES
9 Young people and the sociology of chronic illness: meanings, management and consequences 139
Jonathan Gabe and Lee F. Monaghan
10 The sociology of mental health and illness 151
Joan Busfield
11 Pharmaceuticalisation: origins, drivers and new developments 170
Jonathan Gabe and Paul Martin
12 Sociological approaches to the gendering of emotions in health and illness 187
Gillian Bendelow and Alison Phipps
13 Sociology of the medical profession and para-professions 199
Will Schupmann and Stefan Timmermans
14 Health, society and social suffering 213
Iain Wilkinson
15 Sociologies of food and eating 227
Anne Murcott
16 Diagnosis 243
Annemarie Jutel
17 The media politics of health, illness and healthcare 257
Alison Anderson
18 The sociology of bioethics 274
Raymond De Vries
19 Antimicrobial resistance: discourse, practice and relating 291
Nik Brown
20 Sociologies of public health and health promotion 308
Judith Green and Cristian Montenegro
21 Risk and health 324
Andy Alaszewski
22 Ageing 339
Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard
23 Racism and racialisation in healthcare settings 354
Sarah Hamed and Hannah Bradby
24 Disability and the sociology of health and illness 378
Gareth M. Thomas
25 Sociology of the pregnant and birthing body 393
Mandie Scamell and Andy Alaszewski
26 Sleep, health and medicine: sociological agendas 408
Simon J. Williams, Catherine Coveney and Robert Meadows
27 Sociological contributions to the study of death in health and medicine 424
Glenys Caswell

PART III EMERGING TOPICS AND PERSPECTIVES
28 Sociologies of precision medicine 439
Barbara Prainsack
29 The sociology of epidemics and pandemics 455
Robert Dingwall
30 Data-intensive medicine 474
Klaus Hoeyer
31 Artificial intelligence for long-term care in later life 488
Barbara Barbosa Neves and Maho Omori
32 Digital health: practices and infrastructures 504
Benjamin Marent and Henriette Langstrup
33 Neuroscience, novelty, and the sociology of the brain 525
Martyn Pickersgill
34 Hospitals of the future 541
John Gardner

Index 555