Preface to the Third Edition
1 Introduction
2 Going to the Doctor
The Experience of Symptoms
Illness Behavior
Importance of Illness Behavior for the Doctor
Illness Behavior and the Medical Model
3 Measuring Health and Illness
Mortality
Morbidity Prevalence Studies
Sickness Absence Rates
Caseload
Measures of Functioning
Self-Report Measures
Subjective Health Measures
Quality of Life Measures
4 Social Causes of Illness
Causal Models
Establishing a Causal Relationship
Social Factors
Social Integration
Social Support
Life Events
5 Labeling Behavior
Primary Deviance
Secondary Deviance
Stigma
Disability and Handicap
Labeling and Psychiatric Disease
6 Social Patterns of Illness: I
Explaining Illness Patterns
Historical Changes
Geography
Occupation
Gender
Ethnicity
Unemployment
7 Social Patterns of Illness: II
Age
Social Class
8 Coping with Illness
Managing Labels
Coping with Chronic Illness
Carers
9 Models of Illness
Exploring Abdominal Pain
Symptoms and Pathology
Biographical Medicine
Alternative Models of Illness
Models of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
10 Types of Health Care
Self-Care
Family Care
Community Care
Self-Help Groups
Professional Care
11 Clinical Autonomy
Controlling Information
Controlling Costs
Paying the Doctor
Evaluating
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Outline of sociology as applied to medicine by David Armstrong. ISBN 9781483183701. Published by Butterworth-Heinemann in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
