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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1/0941
• Soggetto topico: National health services - Great Britain; Social medicine - Great Britain
• Altri autori: GabeJonathan CalnanMichael BuryMichael <1945->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The sociology of the health service
• ISBN: 1-134-96939-2; 1-134-96940-6; 1-280-33821-0; 9786610338214; 0-203-40475-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910799957403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II