Comparative social policy and social security: A ten-country study

Kaim-Caudle, P. R.

Martin Robertson

The sociology of housework

Politics & Social Sciences

OAKLEY, ANN

Sociology

Roots of Russian Communism

David Stuart Lane

Politics & Government

Growth and Stability in a Mature Economy

Cornwall, John

The Sociology of crime and delinquency in Britain Volume 2: new criminologies

Policy-making in British government: An analysis of power & rationality

210p red cloth, gilt lettering, very good copy from a Cambridge college library, unused, clean and bright

Smith, Brian

Administrative Law

Brian C. Smith

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 198 pages; Physical desc. : [7], 198 p. ; 24 cm. Includes the text of the Charter of the United Nations. Includes bibliographical references and index. Complete with a number of supplementary appendices and a comprehensive bibliography. Subjects: World politics. World War, 1939-1945 - Diplomatic history. United Nations. Organisation. Role of Webster, Sir Charles, b.1886, 1939-1946

The Historian as diplomat: Charles Kingsley Webster and the United Nations, 1939-1946

Philip Alan Reynolds

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. This is followed in Chapter 2 by a look at previous attempts to break with this tradition and to develop accounts of illness as social action rather than as mere behaviour. In Chapter 3, Robert Dingwall attempts to formulate some more positive proposals. He reviews a number of suggestions concerning more adequate conceptualizations of illness. He then seeks to develop from them an account of illness based on the study of every-day life. These suggestions are illustrated in Chapter 5 by a re-working of empirical accounts of psychoactive drugs, poliomyelitis, myocardial infarction and childbirth. In the final chapter he sets out a methodological programme by which the questions raised in the book might be further investigated.

Aspects of illness

Dingwall, Robert

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