Dr David Wainwright is a Sociologist who studies the connections between work, health and wellbeing, with particular reference to welfare and health care policy. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department for Health, University of Bath where he convenes the cross-faculty Work, Health and Wellbeing Research Group, and is the Director of Studies for the Professional Doctorate in Health programmes.

This is an excellent book with just the kind of critical approach that I encourage students to take. It covers a range of topical health issues that are frequently discussed among the general public, in the media, and in policy circles. The articles challenge some popular notions and misconceptions on health and illness and take a scienftific analysis to distinguish between what is fact and what is not fact. Together the collection of articles establish a very useful sociological approach to understanding the contemporary concern with health and health panicks.

• The Changing Face of Medical Sociology - David WainwrightDoing Better, Feeling Scared: Health Statistics and the Culture of Fear - Alan BuckinghamThe Object of Medicine - Stephen BowlerHealth Scares and Risk Awareness - Adam BurgessIllness Behaviour and the Discourse of Health - David WainwrightMedicalisation in a Therapy Culture - Frank FurediThe `Feminization′ of Health - Ellie Lee & Elizabeth FraynMedicine, Science and `Higher Superstition′ - Tracey BrownNew Dimensions of Health Care Organisation - Mike BuryChanging Concepts of International Health - Vanessa Pupavac

Dr David Wainwright is a Sociologist who studies the connections between work, health and wellbeing, with particular reference to welfare and health care policy. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department for Health, University of Bath where he convenes the cross-faculty Work, Health and Wellbeing Research Group, and is the Director of Studies for the Professional Doctorate in Health programmes.

This is an excellent book with just the kind of critical approach that I encourage students to take. It covers a range of topical health issues that are frequently discussed among the general public, in the media, and in policy circles. The articles challenge some popular notions and misconceptions on health and illness and take a scienftific analysis to distinguish between what is fact and what is not fact. Together the collection of articles establish a very useful sociological approach to understanding the contemporary concern with health and health panicks.

• The Changing Face of Medical Sociology - David WainwrightDoing Better, Feeling Scared: Health Statistics and the Culture of Fear - Alan BuckinghamThe Object of Medicine - Stephen BowlerHealth Scares and Risk Awareness - Adam BurgessIllness Behaviour and the Discourse of Health - David WainwrightMedicalisation in a Therapy Culture - Frank FurediThe `Feminization′ of Health - Ellie Lee & Elizabeth FraynMedicine, Science and `Higher Superstition′ - Tracey BrownNew Dimensions of Health Care Organisation - Mike BuryChanging Concepts of International Health - Vanessa Pupavac

Dr David Wainwright is a Sociologist who studies the connections between work, health and wellbeing, with particular reference to welfare and health care policy. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department for Health, University of Bath where he convenes the cross-faculty Work, Health and Wellbeing Research Group, and is the Director of Studies for the Professional Doctorate in Health programmes.

This is an excellent book with just the kind of critical approach that I encourage students to take. It covers a range of topical health issues that are frequently discussed among the general public, in the media, and in policy circles. The articles challenge some popular notions and misconceptions on health and illness and take a scienftific analysis to distinguish between what is fact and what is not fact. Together the collection of articles establish a very useful sociological approach to understanding the contemporary concern with health and health panicks.

• The Changing Face of Medical Sociology - David WainwrightDoing Better, Feeling Scared: Health Statistics and the Culture of Fear - Alan BuckinghamThe Object of Medicine - Stephen BowlerHealth Scares and Risk Awareness - Adam BurgessIllness Behaviour and the Discourse of Health - David WainwrightMedicalisation in a Therapy Culture - Frank FurediThe `Feminization′ of Health - Ellie Lee & Elizabeth FraynMedicine, Science and `Higher Superstition′ - Tracey BrownNew Dimensions of Health Care Organisation - Mike BuryChanging Concepts of International Health - Vanessa Pupavac