Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Social Patterning of Health -- Social Class -- Gender -- Ethnicity -- Age -- Place -- Health and Development -- Material and Cultural Factors -- Psycho-social Factors -- Social Support -- Life Events -- Lifecourse -- Part II: Experience of Illness -- Medicalization -- Illness Behaviour -- Stigma -- Embodiment -- Chronic Illness and Disability -- Illness Narratives -- Risk -- The Sick Role -- Practitioner-client Relationships -- Uncertainty -- Compliance and Concordance -- Quality of Life -- Dying Trajectories -- Part III: Health, Knowledge and Practice -- Medical Model -- Social Constructionism -- Lay Knowledge -- Reproduction -- Medical Technologies -- Geneticization -- Surveillance and Health Promotion -- Part IV: Health Work and the Division of Labour -- Professions and Professionalization -- Professional Socialization -- Medical Autonomy and Medical Dominance -- Decline of Medical Autonomy -- Medical Pluralism -- Negotiated Order -- Emotional Labour -- Informal Care -- Part V: Health Care Organization and Policy -- Hospitals and Health Care Organizations -- Privatization -- Managerialism -- Consumerism -- Social Movements and Health -- Social Problems and Health -- Th New Public Health -- Medicines Regulation -- Citizenship and Health -- Evaluation -- Malpractice.