This title was first published in 2001. With critical observations
on past approaches to this issue and the proposal of alternative
lines of inquiry, this book is concerned with the attempts made by
sociologists (and to a lesser extent, doctors) to account for
patterns of social conduct that are observably associated with
periods of illness. The author argues that medical sociologists
have confused the proper realms of biological and sociological
inquiry, and that it is this confusion that lies at the heart of
the paucity of genuinely informative work in this field. The first
chapter examines some of the influential explanations of the social
consequences of illness that medical sociologists have put forward.
The author analyzes representative selections from the body of
literature on illness behaviour and on attempts to formulate
accounts of illness within that tradition.
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