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Author:   Kaisa Kauppinen ,  Kaisa Kauppinen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780815388166

ISBN 10:   0815388160
Pages:   153
Publication Date:   29 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Ian Shaw and Kaisa Kauppinen; The work of pathologists: visualization of disease and control of uncertainty, Elianne Riska; Constructing risk: rumour as a resource for medical sociology, Ian Shaw and Louise Woodward; Lay understandings of health: a qualitative study, Sara O'Sullivan and Anne Stakelum; Self-rated health in Moscow and Helsinki, Hannele Palosuo; Pragmatism, globalism and culturalism: health pluralism of Chinese people in Britain, Ruby C.M Chau and Sam W.K.Yu; Shifting views of depression: analysing people's accounts of their suffering, Ilka Kangas; The construction of lay resistance to vaccination, Pru Hobson-West; Pain, loss and collective action: health consumer groups and the policy process, Judith Allsop, Kathryn Jones and Rob Baggott; The medicalization of unhappiness? The management of mental distress in primary care, Ian Shaw and Louise Woodward; Index.

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IAN SHAW School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham. KAISA KAUPPINEN Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, University of Helsinki.

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