The Sociology of Health and Medicine
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 3PE127
Main group 1
Preparatory reading
- Bradby, Hannah, Medical sociology: an introduction, London, SAGE Publications, 2009Compulsory
- Bradby, Hannah, Medical Sociology: An Introduction, Sage Publications, 2009
- Nettleton, Sarah, The sociology of health and illness, 3. ed., Cambridge, Polity, 2013Compulsory
Other course literature
- Annandale, Ellen, The Sociology of Health and Medicine: A Critical Introduction, John Wiley & Sons, 2014
- Health and disease: a reader, 3. ed., Buckingham, Open University Press, 2001
- Bradby, Hannah, Medicine, Health and Society: A Critical Sociology, Sage Publications, 2012
- Wilkinson, Richard G.; Pickett, Kate, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better, London, Allen Lane, 2009
- Cockerham, William C., The new Blackwell companion to medical sociology, Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, c2010
- Cockerham, William C., The new Blackwell companion to medical sociology, Malden, MA, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
- Turner, Bryan S., The new medical sociology: social forms of health and illness, New York, W.W. Norton, 2004
A selection of articles from international journals such as 'Sociology of Health and Illness' and 'Social Science and Medicine' will be used
* Compulsory