Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine

Edited by Alan Petersen, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine 1Alan PetersenPART I MAJOR THEORETICAL INFLUENCES AND PERSPECTIVES2 Constructing the boundaries of health sociology 28Fran Collyer3 Critical theories in sociologies of health and medicine 47Graham Scambler4 New materialist perspectives on health, illness and health care 62Nick J. Fox5 Sociologies of health and gender 76Ellen Annandale6 Biomedicalisation revisited: concepts and practices 91Adele E. Clarke, Melanie Jeske, Janet K. Shim, and Laura Mamo7 Health inequalities 110Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan8 Illness narratives: from analysis to answerability 124Danielle Spencer and Arthur FrankPART II SIGNIFICANT EMPIRICAL RESEARCH THEMES9 Young people and the sociology of chronic illness: meanings, management and consequences 139Jonathan Gabe and Lee F. Monaghan10 The sociology of mental health and illness 151Joan Busfield11 Pharmaceuticalisation: origins, drivers and new developments 170Jonathan Gabe and Paul Martin12 Sociological approaches to the gendering of emotions in health and illness 187Gillian Bendelow and Alison Phipps13 Sociology of the medical profession and para-professions 199Will Schupmann and Stefan Timmermans14 Health, society and social suffering 213Iain Wilkinson15 Sociologies of food and eating 227Anne Murcott16 Diagnosis 243Annemarie Jutel17 The media politics of health, illness and healthcare 257Alison Anderson18 The sociology of bioethics 274Raymond De Vries19 Antimicrobial resistance: discourse, practice and relating 291Nik Brown20 Sociologies of public health and health promotion 308Judith Green and Cristian Montenegro21 Risk and health 324Andy Alaszewski22 Ageing 339Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard23 Racism and racialisation in healthcare settings 354Sarah Hamed and Hannah Bradby24 Disability and the sociology of health and illness 378Gareth M. Thomas25 Sociology of the pregnant and birthing body 393Mandie Scamell and Andy Alaszewski26 Sleep, health and medicine: sociological agendas 408Simon J. Williams, Catherine Coveney and Robert Meadows27 Sociological contributions to the study of death in health and medicine 424Glenys Caswell PART III EMERGING TOPICS AND PERSPECTIVES28 Sociologies of precision medicine 439Barbara Prainsack29 The sociology of epidemics and pandemics 455Robert Dingwall30 Data-intensive medicine 474Klaus Hoeyer31 Artificial intelligence for long-term care in later life 488Barbara Barbosa Neves and Maho Omori32 Digital health: practices and infrastructures 504Benjamin Marent and Henriette Langstrup33 Neuroscience, novelty, and the sociology of the brain 525Martyn Pickersgill34 Hospitals of the future 541John GardnerIndex 555

‘The Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine is an outstanding resource, unpacking and exploring classic and contemporary perspectives in health sociology. Spanning enduring issues such as (bio)medicalisation right through to the more recent digital and affective turns, it contains fresh and critical contributions by an illustrious group of scholars who lead the field globally. Artfully balancing conceptual and empirical concerns, this Handbook will be essential reading for students and researchers interested in health, illness and care.’