TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacKay, L
AU  - Soothill, K
AU  - Melia, K
TI  - Classic texts in health care
SN  - 0750627387
PY  - 1998///
PB  - Butterworth-Heinemann
KW  - National health service
KW  - Health
KW  - Health services
KW  - Sociology, medical
N1  - Part 1 Health: some fundamental issues    
Kelman - The social nature of the definition problem in health    
McKeown - The role of medicine: dream, mirage, or nemesis    
Strong - epidemic psychology: a model    
Calnan: Health and illness: the lay perspective    
Blaxter - health and lifestyles    
Goffman - assylums    
Part 2 Professions    
Hughes - the making of a physician    
Melia - learning and working: the occupational socialization of nurses    
Schon - the reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action    
Etzioni - the semi-professions and their organization    
Oakley - the importance of being a nurse    
Armstrong - the fabrication of nurse-patient relationships    
Part 3 How far have we come? or fifty years of the National Health Service    
Abel-Smith - health care before the National Health    
Widgery - that National Health: a radical perspective    
Titmuss - the gift relationship    
Doyal - the political economy of health    
Gillon - justice and allocation of medical resources

N2  - A core reader for sociology and related modules in nursing and allied healthcare degrees and diploma courses. Classic texts from the last fifty years have been brought together to present this unique collection of excerpts in one accessible volume.They are relevant to medical sociology, the sociology of health and illness, the experiences of patients and of professionals and the dynamic health care environment. This is an important resource and study companion.
ER  -