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
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
Notions of child health: mothers' accounts of health in their young babiesSociology of Health and Illness - Tập 19 Số 4 - Trang 436-456 - 1997
Sonja Olin Lauritzen
AbstractThis paper is concerned with mothers’ understandings of child health in their young babies. To explore how child health is depicted, explained and contextualised by mothers, altogether 29 mothers in Stockholm and London were interviewed through the baby's first months about day‐to‐day experiences of the baby's health and well‐being. The analysis of the moth...... hiện toàn bộ
Unemployment and health: selection or causation ‐ a false antithesis?Sociology of Health and Illness - Tập 10 Số 1 - Trang 41-67 - 1988
Mel Bartley
Abstract Observations on the effect of unemployment on health include note that the clustering in certain geographic areas of low income, job insecurity and poor housing are the experience of the same groups of people. Considerable difficulties exist in isolating the different aspects involved. Nonetheless, it is argued (1) that the effects of each separate strand ar...... hiện toàn bộ
Theorising Inequalities in Health: The Place of Lay KnowledgeSociology of Health and Illness - Tập 20 Số 5 - Trang 619-644 - 1998
Jennie Popay, Gareth Williams, Carol Thomas, Tony Gatrell
This paper contributes to the development of theory and research on inequalities in health. Our central premise is that these are currently limited because they fail adequately to address the relationship between agency and structure, and that lay knowledge in the form of narrative has a significant contribution to make to this endeavour. The paper is divided into three sections. In the fi...... hiện toàn bộ
Is There a Place for Geography in the Analysis of Health Inequality?Sociology of Health and Illness - Tập 20 Số 5 - Trang 645-672 - 1998
Sarah Curtis, Ian Rees Jones
This paper considers how ideas and evidence concerning geographical health variation are used in discourses relating to health inequalities. We consider the different concepts of space and place which are employed in these debates. Much of the discussion in the literature focuses on the relative importance of compositional and contextual effects in determining health variation between diff...... hiện toàn bộ
Health inequalitiesSociology of Health and Illness - Tập 34 Số 1 - Trang 130-146 - 2012
Graham Scambler
AbstractThe evidence bearing on the nature and extent of health inequalities documented globally and in the UK is addressed, twin foci within the UK being (a) associations between socioeconomic classification and health and longevity, and (b) the notion of a ‘social gradient’. A consideration of the various ‘models’ that have been developed by sociologists and thei...... 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