Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:42:26 +1000
From: MR JOHN GERMOV 6315 <Germov@psychology.newcastle.edu.au>
Subject: Re: New health sociology text
To: Medical Sociology List <medsoc@csf.colorado.edu>
Reply-to: germov@socanth.newcastle.edu.au
Message-id: <8CC64151C2@psychology.newcastle.edu.au>
I am happy to announce the publication of a new health sociology 
text that may be of interest to MEDSOC subscribers: 

J Germov (ed) (1998) "Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health", 
Melbourne: Oxford University Press Second Opinion is a new health 

Contents:
     Part 1: The social production and distribution of health and
     illness 
     1. Imagining Health Problems as Social Issues - John Germov
     2. Class, Health Inequality and Social Justice - John Germov 3.
     Gender and Health - Dorothy Broom 4. Aboriginal Health as a
     Social Product - Peter Khoury

     Part 2: The social construction of health and illness 

     5. Ethnicity and Multicultural Health Care - Roberta Julian
     6. The Medicalisation of Deviance - Sharyn Roach Anleu
     7. The Body, Medicine and Society - Deborah Lupton
     8. Models of Health - James Knight
     9. Health Promotion Dilemmas - Katy Richmond
     10 The Human Genome Project: A Sociology of Medical Technology -
     Evan Willis 11 Ageing, Dying and Death - Maureen Strazzari

     Part 3: The social organisation of health care 

    12 Power, Politics and Health Care - Helen Belcher
    13 Challenges to Medical Dominance - John Germov 
    14 Nursing and Sociology: An Uneasy Relationship - Deidre Wicks 
    15 Alternative Medicine - Gary Easthope 
    16 In Search of Profession: Allied Health - Lauren Williams 
    17 Citizenship and Health as a Scarce Resource - Bryan Turner 
    18 Conclusions from a Second Opinion - John Germov    
    Appendix 1: Key web, book, elist and journal resources
    Appendix 2: How to write a health sociology essay
    Glossary

Each chapter contains definitions of key words, a summary of main 
points, discussion questions and further reading guides; two 
appendices aim to help students research and write health sociology 
essays. Cartoons throughout the book complement the accessible style 
of the writing. A Teaching Resource Manual is also available to 
teachers who use the book as a text. 

For more information or to order a copy of the book, visit the 
Second Opinion web site: 
<http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/so/germov1.htm>
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John Germov, Lecturer in Sociology
Dept of Sociology & Anthropology
The University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
Phone: (+61) 02 4921 6315  Fax: (+61) 02 4921 6902
Germov@socanth.newcastle.edu.au
Web: <http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/so/germov.htm>
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'Some people see things as they are and say, Why?; 
I dream things that never were and say, Why not?' (Robert Kennedy 1968)