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 1990s.
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- Cover Page
- The Sociology of the Health Service
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter one: Medical sociology and health policy: an historical overview
- Chapter two: Privatization in the British health sector: a challenge to the NHS?
- Chapter three: The politics of professional power: medicine in a changing health service
- Chapter four: Health service management—a sociological view: Griffiths and the non-negotiated order of the hospital
- Chapter five: Evaluating the outcomes of health care
- Chapter six: Recent developments in general practice: a sociological analysis
- Chapter seven: Knowledge and control in health promotion: a test case for social policy and social theory
- Chapter eight: The confused boundaries of community care
- Chapter nine: The agenda for sociological health-policy research for the 1990s
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