Sociology of Health, contains empirical and theoretical articles that apply sociological concepts and methods to the understanding of health and illness and the organization of medicine and healthcare. Further the articles also try to explore the understanding of the process by which social practices and human health are related. INDICE: Series NoteForeword - Yogendra SinghPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction - Madhu NaglaSociological Inroads into Medicine: A Tribute to Aneeta A. Minocha (1943-2007) - Ruby BhardwajFood: The Immanent Cause from Outside - Medical Lore on Food and Health in Village Tamil Nadu - V SujathaState Sponsored Health Care in Rural Uttar Pradesh: Grassroots Encounters of a Survey Researcher - Rajiv BalakrishnanGram Panchayat and Health Care Delivery in Himachal Pradesh - Sthitapragyan RayOccupational Attitudes of Physicians - Dr A Ramanamma and Usha BambawaleThe System of Hope: The Constitution of Identity in Medical Institutions - Roma ChatterjiVoice of Illness and Voice of Medicine in Doctor-Patient Interaction - Matthew GeorgeNarratives of Sickness and Suffering: A Study of Malaria in South Gujarat - Purendra PrasadCaste Variations in Reproductive Health Status of Women: A Study of Three Eastern States - Papia Raj and Aditya RajInformal Social Netwroks, Sonography and Female Foeticide in India - Tulsi PatelPerception and Work Ethos of Medical Experts Dealing with Infertile Couples: A Study in Medical Sociology - Bela Kothari‘Correcting’ the Reproductive ‘Impairment’: Infertility Treatment Seeking Experiences of Low Income Group Women in Mumbai Slums - Meghana JoshiRisk Culture, Propertied Classes, and Dynamics of a Region: A Study of HIV/AIDS in East Godavari District (Andhra Pradesh) - Asima Jena and N Purendra PrasadAddressing the Rights of HIV-Positive Women: A Comparative Study of Civil Society Activism in Karnataka and West Bengal - Skylab SahuPrison Inmate Awareness of HIV and AIDS in Durban, South Africa - Hanta SinghMedicalisation of Mental Disorder: Shifting Epistemologies and Beyond - Tina ChakravartyFreedom in the Imperial Imagination: Mental Asylums Ideology and Political Economy in Colonial India - Parthsarathi MondalA Sociology for Happiness: Beyond Western Versus non-Western Perspectives - Kenji KosakaSocial Change in The Caste Hindu Family and its Possible Impact on Personality and Mental Health - A A Khatri‘Indigenisation’ not ‘Indianisation’ of Psychiatry: An Anthropological Perspective - Renu AddlakhaIndexAppendix of Sources
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