Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman: Civilised-Dramaturgical

Bodies, Social Status and Health Inequalities

Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forgotten

Women in the Study of Gender and Health

Colin Leys and Colin Hay: Market-Driven Politics and the

Depoliticisation of Healthcare

William C. Cockerham: The Contemporary Sociology

of Health Lifestyles

Pierre Bourdieu: Health Lifestyles, the Family and Social Class

Karl Marx and Frederich Engels: Capitalism, Health and the

Healthcare Industry

Anthony Giddens: The Reflexive Self and the Consumption of

Alternative Medicine

Anthony Giddens: Structuration, Drug Use, Food Choice and

Long-Term Illness

Talcott Parsons: His Legacy and the Sociology of Health and

Illness

Margaret Stacey: The Sociology of Health and Healing

Harold Garfinkel: Lessons on Emergent Behaviours in Complex

Organisations

Emile Durkheim: Social Order and Public Health

Max Weber: Bureaucracy, Formal Rationality and the

Modern Hospital

Eliot Freidson: Sociological Narratives of Professionalism and

Modern Medicine

Robert Merton: Occupational Roles, Social Status and Health

Inequalities

Ludwik Fleck: Thought Collectives and the Sociology of Medical

Knowledge

A Research-Based Approach to Health,Healthcare and Hospital Safety

Erving Goffman: The Moral Career of Stigma and Mental Illness

Jurgen Habermas: Health and Healing Across the

Lifeworld–System Divide

Anthony Giddens: Risk, Globalisation and Indigenous Public

Health

George Herbert Mead: Meanings and Selves in Illness

George Libman Engel: The Biopsychosocial Model and the

Construction of Medical Practice

Emile Durkheim and Thomas Luckmann: Religion, Post-Christian

Spirituality and Mental Health

The Sociology of Health, Illness and
Medicine: Institutional Progress and
Theoretical Frameworks
Fran Collyer and Graham Scambler

Alfred Schutz: The Co-construction of Meaning within

Professional–Patient Interaction

Antonio Gramsci and Pierre Bourdieu: ‘Whiteness’ and

Indigenous Healthcare

Niklas Luhmann: Social Systems Theory and the Translation of

Public Health Research

Michel Foucault: Governmentality, Health Policy and the

Governance of Childhood Obesity

Peter Conrad: The Medicalisation of Society

Ivan Illich and Irving Kenneth Zola: Disabling Medicalisation

Vicente Navarro: Marxism, Medical Dominance, Healthcare and

Health