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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814007203321

Titolo

The Sociology of the health service / / edited by Jonathan Gabe, Michael Calnan, and Michael Bury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991

ISBN

1-134-96939-2

1-134-96940-6

1-280-33821-0

9786610338214

0-203-40475-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GabeJonathan

CalnanMichael

BuryMichael <1945->

Disciplina

362.1/0941

Soggetti

National health services - Great Britain

Social medicine - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction; Medical sociology and health policy: an historical overview; Privatization in the British health sector: a challenge to the NHS?; The politics of professional power: medicine in a changing health service; Health service management; a sociological view: Griffiths and the non-negotiated order of the hospital; Evaluating the outcomes of health care; Recent developments in general practice: a sociological analysis; Knowledge and control in health promotion: a test case for social policy and social theory

The confused boundaries of community careThe agenda for sociological health-policy research for the 1990's; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

The Sociology of the Health Service responds directly to the need to develop a sociological analysis of current health policy. Topics covered vary from privatisation and health service management to health education and the politics of professional power. Also included is an



histroical review of sociology's contributions to health policy and proposals for an agenda for sociological health policy research in the 1990's.