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Sociology in Practice for Health Care Professionals

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Ron Iphofen
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  2. Fiona Poland
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Editors:
  1. Jo Campling
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  • An introductory text which adopts a cumulative approach: building analytical skills with direct reference to health care examples
    Accessibility: active learning approach will appeal to a wide range of healthcare professionals
    Links to readers' personal and professional experiences
    Authors are highly experienced in the collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of health, social care and sociology courses

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Nature of Sociology: Explanations and Applications

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Power to Care

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 18-31

  4. Learning to Care: A Lifetime of Socialisation

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 32-53

  5. The Basis of Informal Care: Families and Households

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 54-66

  6. Healthy Learning

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 67-86

  7. Working for Health

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 87-108

  8. Equal and Unequal Opportunities

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 109-129

  9. Inherited Health

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 130-143

  10. Natural Carers: Sex and Gender

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 144-163

  11. Common and Uncommon Cultures

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 164-179

  12. Beliefs, Moralities and Ideologies of Care

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 180-193

  13. Controlling Conditions

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 194-213

  14. The Costs of ‘Free’ Time

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 214-233

  15. Welfare, Ill-fare, How Fair?

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 234-245

  16. Modelling Health Care Sociologically

    • Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland
    Pages 246-253

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 254-262
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About this book

This introductory text encourages the application of sociological insights in health care. Health processes and outcomes are analysed in terms of social difference, inequality, opportunities and life chances. Key sociological concepts and theories are introduced by using practical exercises and an active learning approach. The book is written in an accessible style so that it can be used as a course text but will also appeal to individual readers at all levels in their career.

About the authors

RON IPHOFEN is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wales, Bangor, where he teaches on a range of health professional courses. He has acted as consultant on curriculum and organisational development, learning outcomes and teaching quality assessment and he is a subject specialist assessor for the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales.

FIONA POLAND is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wales, Bangor. As National Chair of the Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector, she promotes the development of information networks and training in the dissemination of good practice in community settings.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sociology in Practice for Health Care Professionals

  • Authors: Ron Iphofen, Fiona Poland

  • Editors: Jo Campling

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13879-1

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 272

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Nursing

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Health & Hospitals, Pharma

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