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This volume provides a comparative European overview focusing upon the main areas of social construction as it relates to health and illness. This includes an emphasis upon lay beliefs and the different way understandings of health can impact upon health behaviour. The contributors also examine health knowledge and the interaction and comparison between lay and professional knowledge systems. The book will be of particular interest to those studying, researching and working in the fields of health and the sociology of health and the body.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Work of Pathologists: Visualisation of Disease and Control of Uncertainty
- 2. Constructing Risk: Rumour as a Resource for Medical Sociology
- 3. Lay Understandings of Health: A Qualitative Study
- 4. Self-Rated Health in Moscow and Helsinki
- 5. Pragmatism, Globalism and Culturalism: Health Pluralism of Chinese People in Britain
- 6. Shifting Views of Depression: Analysing People's Accounts of their Suffering
- 7. The Construction of Lay Resistance to Vaccination
- 8. Pain, Loss and Collective Action: Health Consumer Groups and the Policy Process
- 9. The Medicalisation of Unhappiness? The Management of Mental Distress in Primary Care
- Index
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