Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface to the Sixth Edition; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; PART 1 HEALTH SOCIOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL MODEL OF HEALTH; 1 Imagining Health Problems as Social Issues; 2 Theorising Health: Major Theoretical Perspectives in Health Sociology; 3 Well-being and Wellness; PART 2 THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS; 4 Global Public Health; 5 The Class Origins of Health Inequality; 6 Workplace Health; 7 Gendered Health; 8 Indigenous Health: The Slow Road to Equity; 9 Ethnicity, Health, and Multiculturalism.
10 Rural Health11 Young People's Health; PART 3 THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS; 12 The Social Determinants of Obesity; 13 The Medicalisation of Deviance; 14 Mental Illness: Understandings, Experience, and Service Provision; 15 The Illness Experience: Lay Perspectives, Disability, and Chronic Illness; 16 Drug Use and Abuse in Australia: Social Origins, Impacts, and Responses; 17 Ageing, Health, and the Demographic Revolution; 18 Health and Medical Technology; 19 Media and Health: Moral Panics, Miracles, and Medicalisation.
PART 4 THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION OF HEALTH CARE: PROFESSIONS, POLITICS, AND POLICIES20 Power, Politics, and Health Care; 21 Challenges to Medical Dominance; 22 The Sociology of Nursing; 23 The Sociology of Complementary and Alternative Medicine; 24 The Sociology of Allied Health; 25 A Sociology of Health Promotion; Expanded Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface to the Sixth Edition; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; PART 1 HEALTH SOCIOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL MODEL OF HEALTH; 1 Imagining Health Problems as Social Issues
John Germov.
Introduction: the social origins of health and illnessIntroducing the sociological imagination: a template for doing sociological analysis; Social medicine and public health; The rise of the biomedical model; The limits of biomedicine; Rediscovering the social origins of health and illness; The social model of health; Conclusion; 2 Theorising Health: Major Theoretical Perspectives in Health Sociology
John Germov; Introduction; Theoretical perspectives in health sociology: an overview; Key features of major theoretical perspectives; Conclusion; 3 Well-being and Wellness
Daniela Heil.
Introduction: origins and concepts of well-being and wellnessWell-being as an alternative conception of health?; Well-being objectively and subjectively: social constructions of well-being; Social determinants of well-being; Well-being and wellness in Australia; Conclusion; PART 2 THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS; 4 Global Public Health
Alex Broom, Katherine Kenny, and John Germov; Introduction; Global health inequality; Globalisation: progress or problem?; The politics of 'aid'; Medical pluralism and traditional practices.