Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and indexes.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction: Developing the Sociology of Health; Socio-economic Conditions and Aspects of Health: Respiratory Symptoms in Four West Yorkshire Mining Localities; Opening the 'Black Box': Inequalities in Women's Health; Distance Decay and Information Deprivation: Health Implications for People in Rural Isolation; 'We're Home Helps because we Care': The Experience of Home Helps Caring for Elderly People; Hooked? Media Responses to Tranquillizer Dependence; Regulating our Favourite Drug; Say No to Drugs, but Yes to Clean Syringes?
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The sociology of medicine has come a long way from its origins in epidemiologyand clinical practice. Like all specialist areas of study it has developed its owninternal debates, its preferred core of research topics, and its own professionalinfrastructure for their analysis. Over the years, there has been a shift from asociology in medicine to a sociology of medicine, and from a sociology ofmedicine, towards a sociology of health and illness. It is to the development ofthis latter perspective that the present volume is addressed.