Germov J. (ed.) Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology

5th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2014. — 556 p. — ISBN: 9780195520149Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology fifth edition is the leading health sociology textbook for Australian students. Accompanied by comprehensive online resources with innovative teaching and learning materials, this outstanding teaching text introduces students to the theories, concepts and contexts needed to understand the social origins of health and illness.New to this edition New chapter: `Drug Use and Abuse in Australia: Social Origins, Impacts and Responses' New chapter: `Well-being and Wellness' Significantly updated chapters on gendered health, medical dominance, and allied health Updated figures, tables, data and statistics More content on cyberbullying and mental health, health literacy, and the social gradient of health More content on the National Health Reform, key health policy developments, and international comparison of Australia's health care system.Imagining Health Problems as Social Issues
Theorising Health: Major Theoretical Perspectives in Health Sociology
Well-being and Wellness
Global Public Health
The Class Origins of Health Inequality
Workplace Health
Gendered Health
Indigenous Health: The Perpetuation of Inequality
Ethnicity, Health, and Multiculturalism
Rural Health
The Social Appetite: A Sociological Approach to Food and Nutrition
The Medicalisation of Deviance
Mental Illness: Understandings, Experience, and Service Provision
The Illness Experience: Lay Perspectives, Disability and Chronic Illness
Drug Use and Abuse in Australia: Social Origins, Impacts, and Responses
Ageing, Health, and the Demographic Revolution
The Human Genome Project: A Sociology of Medical Technology
Media and Health: Moral Panics, Miracles, and Medicalisation
Power, Politics, and Health Care
Challenges to Medical Dominance
Sociology of Nursing
The Sociology of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Jostling for Position: A Sociology of Allied Health
A Sociology of Health Promotion
Community Health Services in Australia