Table of Contents

1. Health and Illness in a Social Perspective: Defining Health and Illness; Social Structure and Illness; The Impact of Public Health; Why Did the Rates go Down?. 2 Explaining Illness Patterns: Diet in Australia; Diet, Migration and Health; The Food Industry; Food Hazards and Their Regulation; Unemployment; Stress; Social Ties and Health; Risk Factors or Social Inequality?; Inequality Between Nations: Third World Health. 3 The Social Distribution of Health and Illness - Australian Patterns: The Present Picture of Mortality; Morbidity; From Settlement to Modern Society: An Australian Pattern of Health and Illness?. 4 The Organisation of Health Care in Australia: The Organisation of Health Care in an International Context; Current Arrangements in Organisation of Health Care in Australia; The Legacy of Past Decisions - Constraints on Planning; The Development of State Supported Health Care. 5 The Development of the Biomedical Model of Disease: Egypt, Greece and Rome; Medical Knowledge and the Medieval Church; The New Scientific Medicine; The Spread of Scientific Medicine. 6 Health Care Becomes Big Business - Tensions in Modern Medicine: The Hospital; The Medical Profession; Private Profit and Medical Care; Technology; Drugs for All Seasons; Kafka in Action: Bureaucracies; Finally, Another World. 7 A Profession of Nursing: Early Nursing; The Development of the Profession; Socialising Nurses; Dilemmas in Modern Nursing. 8 Pathways to Medical Care: Paths to the Doctor; Types of Health Care; Illness Beliefs; Sociological Models of Illness Behaviour. 9 The Problem of Inadequate Services: Chronic Illness and Disability; Ageing; Work and its Hazard. 10 The Problem of Inappropriate Services: Essential Problems in Women's Health; Aboriginal Health; Death and Dying. 11 AIDS - A Modern Epidemic: The Social Context of AIDS; The Distribution of HIV / AIDS; Legal Control; AIDS in Austrailia; The Social Construction of the AIDS Epidemic; AIDS and the State; Educating the Public. 12 An Apple A Day?: Rising Costs of Health; Ethics and Health Care; Medical Dominance Revisited; Consumer Revolt?; Alternative Healing; The Limits of Medicalisation; The New Public Health; Public and Curative; Health Health Promotion: Lifestyles and Risks; Health Protection; Scope for Ecological Prevention.