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Sociology of Health and Illness
Ashley Frawley 
The Textbook of Health and Social Care, Pages: 3 - 19
Swansea University Author:
Ashley Frawley
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This chapter introduces the sociology of health and illness, first by considering the meaning of the‘sociological imagination’ and associated importance of the concept of context to understandinghuman social life. It then discusses three contexts of health: socio-economic, institutional/professional...
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2020
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