This book offers deep insight into the social dimensions of health and illness. It features global relevance coupled with illustrations from an African context. The book also presents current research directions in the field.
1: Sociology and Health: The Nexus.- 2: Health, Disease and Illness as Conceptual Tools.- 3: Health Behaviour (HB) and Illness Behaviour.- 4: Social Determinants/Context of Health.- 5: Functionalist Perspective on Health.- 6: Social Production of Health: Marxism and Feminism.- 7: Interpretive Perspective in Medical Sociology – Part I.- 8: Interpretive Perspective in Medical Sociology – Part II.- 9: Medicalisation and Client-Practitioner Relations.- 10: Medical Pluralism: Traditional and Modern Health Care.- 11: Towards a Sociology of Bioethics.- 12: Towards a Sociological study of Health Problems in Africa.