Health Care and Health Knowledge (Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138488933 ISBN 13: 9781138488939

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Originally published in 1977, Health Care and Health Knowledge presents some of the best new work being done in the field of medical sociology. Developments in the field have been prompted by both intellectual and social stimuli, and this book addresses the issue of medicine as an element in the maintenance of social order. The book studies how in the social context of medicine, health care is now a substantial element of most countries gross national product, and states that given this, there are inevitably strong pressures for state interest and stare intervention to regulate the allocation of national resources to secure the maximum social and economic returns. This has drawn the sociologist into studying medicine both as an institution and as a critical factor in the development of social policy.

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Robert Dingwall, Christian Heath, Stacey Margaret, Margaret Reid

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138488933
• ISBN 13: 9781138488939
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Dingwall Robert, Heath Christian, Reid Margaret, Stacey Margaret