The Acheson Report / Donald Acheson -- The profession of medicine / Eliot Freidson -- Governmentality and the institutionalization of expertise / Terry Johnson -- The rise of surveillance medicine / David Armstrong -- The diagnostic test and the danger within / Deborah Lupton -- The modern rise of population / Thomas McKeown -- From tribalism to corporatism: the managerial challenge to medical dominance / David J. Hunter -- Disability and the myth of the independent researcher / Colin Barnes -- Lay concepts of health / Mildred Blaxter -- Pathways to the doctor--from person to patient / Irving Kenneth Zola -- Going to see the doctor / Gerry Stimson and Barbara Webb -- Managing courtesy stigma: the case of Alzheimer's disease / Hazel MacRae -- Researching women's health work / Hilary Graham -- The body in consumer society / Mike Featherstone -- Containing the body / Wendy Seymour -- A good enough death / Beverley McNamara.
The condition of the working class in England / Frederick Engels -- National Health Service Bill / Ministry of Health -- The road to serfdom / F.A. Hayek -- Working for patients / Secretaries of State for Health -- Everyone a private patient / David Green -- Supporting families / Home office -- The new NHS ; Saving lives / Secretary of State for Health -- A new universalism / World Health Organisation -- The poor and the poorest / Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend -- The Black Report / Douglas Black -- Widening inequality of health in northern England, 1981-91 / Peter Phillimore, Alastair Beattie and Peter Townsend -- What makes women sick / Lesley Doyal -- You are dangerous to your health / Robert Crawford -- Beyond the Black Report / Mel Bartley, David Blane and George Davey Smith.
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The Sociology and Politics of Health is a collection of key readings through which to explore the sociological and political dimensions of health, illness and health care.