Thinking Sociologically-a sociological perspective to health and illness.
Date Submitted: 11/13/2004 14:41:55
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 3 pages (806 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 3 pages (806 words)
A sociological perspective to health and illness enables health problems to be viewed as social issues. This essay will describe the "sociological imagination" (Mills 1959 cited in Germov, 21) and outline the interrelated historical, cultural, structural and critical factors of which it is comprised. The journal articles, "Researching Aboriginal health: experience from a study of urban young people' s health and well being" (Holmes, Stewart, Garrow, Anderson and Thorpe, 2002) and "Indigenous women' s perceptions of breast cancer …
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…nd edn, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, pp. 3-27.
Holmes, Stewart, Garrow, Anderson, Thorpe, 2002, "Researching Aboriginal Health: Experience From a Study of Urban Young People' s Health and Well-Being", Social Science and Medicine, vol. 54, pp. 1267-1279.
McMichael, Kirk, Manderson, Hoban, Potts, 2000, "Indigenous Women' s Perceptions of Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment in Queensland", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 515-519.
Willis, E.,1993, The sociological quest, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards.
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