Society, culture and health : an introduction to sociology for nurses / Karen Willis and Shandell Elmer
- 作者： Willis, Karen
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- 出版： South Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press 2011
- 主題： Nursing Care--psychology. , Nurse-Patient Relations. , Public Health Practice. , Sociology, Medical , Public health--Social aspects. , Nursing--Social aspects. , Sociology. , Social medicine.
- 版本：2nd ed.
- ISBN： 9780195574623 (pbk.) :: US$70.01 、 0195574621 (pbk.)
- 一般註：Previous ed.: 2007 Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 系統號： 005203692 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
Society, Culture and Health, 2nd Edition introduces sociology to students studying nursing, providing framework from which to consider issues such as chronic illness and disability, health in the media, and changing illness patterns in Australian society.
內容註
1. What is sociology and why is it relevant to nurses? : What is sociology? ; Approaching sociology: the sociological imagination ; Sociology and social theory ; Our theoretical approach: social construction and critical analysis ; Using our framework to present a sociological approach for nursing students -- pt. 1. Ideas about health and illness. 2. Biomedical and sociological approaches to health and illness : Key ideas: knowledge, discourse, power and truth ; The historical development of the discourses of science and scientific medicine ; Biomedicine: a dominant discourse ; A sociological critique of the biomedical model ; The socially constructed nature of medical knowledge ; The side effects of a dominant discourse ; A sociological approach to health and illness -- 3. The media and health : The media in a globalised world ; The media and media ownership ; The authority of news media ; Constructing meaning ; Media portrayals of health and illness ; Information consumption and production: the case of the Internet -- 4. Medical technologies and health : Technologies in health ; The social construction of technology ; Technology and the diagnostic process ; Genetic technologies ; Pharmaceuticals -- Pt. 2. Social structure and health. 5. Health and illness patterns in Australia : Social patterns of health and illness ; Social structure ; Social class ; Social exclusion and marginalisation: processes that structure our social experience ; Poverty, unemployment and homelessness -- 6. Gender, sex and sexuality : Gender ; Sex and sexuality -- 7. Culture and health: ethnic diversity in healing practices and health issues : Culture, ethnicity, ethnocentrism and race ; Cultural beliefs about health and healing: lay and folk models ; Ethnicity, migration and health ; Understanding health experiences: culture, structure or both? -- 8. The health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' systems, society and culture ; Historical context: from traditional through transitional to contemporary ; The health impacts of history, society and culture ; Addressing health issues: different approaches, different solutions -- 9 Ageing, health and inequality : Patterns of ageing in Australia ; Ageing and health ; Social constructions of age ; Social exclusion ; Health care imperatives -- Pt. 3. Experiencing health and illness. 10. The body, health and lifestyle : The body as a socio-cultural construction ; Health, medicine and the body ; Approaching the body in contemporary society ; The body, public health and health practices -- 11. The illness experience: chronic illness : Chronic illness, biomedicine and the social ; Sociological approaches to chronic illness ; Stigma and chronic illness ; Mental illness -- 12. Power and responsibility in health care encounters : Health care encounters as 'social encounters' ; Pathways to health care ; Doctors, patients and power in the health care encounter ; Compliance with medical advice: a medical or social problem? ; Self-care, self-responsibility and self-management: changing relations of care ; Information technology and health care provision -- Pt. 4. Working in health. 13. Health care systems and the health workforce : The organisation of health care in Australia ; Historical context ; Social and political context ; Health expenditure ; Who works in health: the health workforce ; Professions and professionalisation ; Medical dominance -- 14. Complementary and alternative medicine : What are complementary and alternative medicines? ; Legitimacy ; Professionalisation of complementary and alternative therapists ; Who is likely to use complementary and alternative medicine? ; Converging, incorporating or integrating? -- 15. Nursing in contemporary Australia : The nursing workforce ; Nursing as a profession ; Early nursing in Australia ; 'New nursing' ; Nursing and the medical profession ; Claims to professionalism: the importance of autonomy ; The nurse-patient relationship -- 16. Nurses, sociology and health