The Sociology of the Health Service
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The Sociology of the Health Service

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The Sociology of the Health Service

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2002
ISBN
9781134969395
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Global Development Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

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