Mortality, the Social Environment, Crime and ViolenceSociology of Health and Illness - Tập 20 Số 5 - Trang 578-597 - 1998
Richard G. Wilkinson, Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P. Kennedy
Starting out from the relationship between income equality and indicators of social cohesion and social trust, this paper explores the social processes which might account for the relationship between greater income equality and lower population mortality rates. We note that: homicide shows an even closer relationship to income inequality than does mortality from all other causes combined;...... hiện toàn bộ
Epistemic asymmetries in psychotherapy interaction: therapists' practices for displaying access to clients' inner experiencesSociology of Health and Illness - Tập 38 Số 4 - Trang 645-661 - 2016
Elina Weiste, Liisa Voutilainen, Anssi Peräkylä
AbstractThe relationship between a psychotherapist and a client involves a specific kind of epistemic asymmetry: in therapy sessions the talk mainly concerns the client's experience, which is unavailable, as such, to the therapist. This epistemic asymmetry is understood in different ways within different psychotherapeutic traditions. Drawing on a corpus of 70 audio...... hiện toàn bộ
Accounts of health and illness: Dilemmas and representationsSociology of Health and Illness - Tập 18 Số 2 - Trang 220-240 - 1996
Alan Radley, Michael Billig
AbstractThis paper argues that people's views of health and illness are best understood as accounts that they give to others. In that sense, such beliefs are neither the expression of fixed inner attitudes, nor evidence for shared social representations. Instead, we emphasise the importance of seeing health talk as both ideological and dilemmatic. The paper explore...... hiện toàn bộ
Theorising class, health and lifestyles: can Bourdieu help us?Sociology of Health and Illness - Tập 17 Số 5 - Trang 577-604 - 1995
Simon J. Williams
AbstractWhat is the relationship between class, health and life‐styles, and to what extent does health‐related knowledge influence subsequent behaviour? These issues have been a source of considerable debate for medical sociologists and others concerned with promoting ‘healthier’ life‐styles over the years. Yet despite a wealth of empirical material, there has been...... hiện toàn bộ
Sociology of diagnosis: a preliminary reviewSociology of Health and Illness - Tập 31 Số 2 - Trang 278-299 - 2009
Annemarie Jutel
AbstractDiagnoses are the classification tools of medicine, and are pivotal in the ways medicine exerts its role in society. Their sociological study is commonly subsumed under the rubrics of medicalisation, history of medicine and theory of disease. Diagnosis is, however, a powerful social tool, with unique features and impacts which deserve their own specific ana...... hiện toàn bộ
The practice of medical technologySociology of Health and Illness - Tập 25 Số 3 - Trang 97-114 - 2003
Stefan Timmermans, Marc Berg
AbstractIn this article, we review 25 years of sociological scholarship published inSociology of Health and Illnesson medical technologies. We divide the literature into three theoretical perspectives: technological determinism views medical technology as a political force to shape social relationships, social essentialism emphasizes how me...... hiện toàn bộ