Health and Canadian society : sociological perspectives /
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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| Imprint: | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1998. |
| Description: | x, 638 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3612150 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Socio-Historical Overview: The Development of the Canadian Health System / George Torrance
- 2. Health Care Costs: Canada in Perspective / Douglas E. Angus
- 3. Health Status of Canadians / Carl D'Arcy
- 4. Social Distribution of Health among Canadians / Carl D'Arcy
- 5. Low Income and Child Health in Canada / Russell Wilkins and Gregory J. Sherman
- 6. Are Subarctic Indians Undergoing the Epidemiologic Transition? / T. Kue Young
- 7. Culture, Power, and Informed Consent: The Impact of Aboriginal Health Interpreters on Decision-Making / Joseph M. Kaufert and John D. O'Neill
- 8. Punctuality, Pain and Time-Orientation among Sicilian-Canadians / Sam Migliore
- 9. Women's Perspectives on Chronic Illness: Ethnicity, Ideology, and Restructuring of Life / Joan M. Anderson, Connie Blue and Annie Lau
- 10. "What Are Women For?": Cultural Constructions of Menopausal Women in Japan and Canada / Patricia A. Kaufert and Margaret Lock
- 11. Role Strains and Tranquillizer Use / Ruth Cooperstock and Henry L. Lennard
- 12. Self-Reported Sedative-Hypnotic Drug Use in Canada: An Update / Nigel S. B. Rawson and Carl D'Arcy
- 13. Gender and Depression: Assessing Exposure and Vulnerability to Life Events in a Chronically Strained Population / R. Jay Turner and William R. Avison
- 14. The Impact of Working Conditions, Social Roles, and Personal Characteristics on Gender Differences in Distress / Graham S. Lowe and Herbert C. Northcott
- 15. Exploring the Correlates of Self-Provided Health Care Behaviour / Alexander Segall and Jay Goldstein
- 16. Predictors of Successful Aging: A Twelve-Year Study of Manitoba Elderly / Noralou P. Roos and Betty Havens
- 17. Thrown (an encounter with the health care system) / Sharon Batt
- 18. State Authority, Medical Dominance, and Trends in the Regulation of the Health Professions: The Ontario Case / David Coburn
- 19. Women in Medicine: Toward a Conceptual Understanding of the Potential for Change / A. Paul Williams, Karen Domnick and Eugene Vayda
- 20. Rediscovering Appropriate Care: Maternity Traditions and Contemporary Issues in Canada / Cecilia Benoit
- 21. Professional Ideology in Canadian Pharmacy / Linda J. Muzzin, Gregory P. Brown and Roy W. Hornosty
- 22. Women's Perspectives on Informal Care of the Elderly: Public Ideology and Personal Experience of Giving and Receiving Care / Jane Aronson
- 23. For 'Patients of Moderate Means': The Transformation of Ontario's Public General Hospitals, 1880-1950 / David Gagan
- 24. Hospitals as Health Factories / George Torrance
- 25. From Equal Access to Health Care to Equitable Access to Health: A Review of Canadian Provincial Health Commissions and Reports / Sharmila L. Mhatre and Raisa B. Deber
- 26. Drug Makers and Drug Regulators: Too Close for Comfort. A Study of the Canadian Situation / Joel Lexchin
- 27. Partnership as a New Strategy in Mental Health Policy: The Case of Quebec / Francoise Boudreau
- 28. Community Participation in Quebec's Health System: A Strategy to Curtail Community Empowerment? / Michel O'Neill
- 29. The Limits of Health Insurance / Donald Swartz
- 30. Producing Health, Consuming Health Care / Robert G. Evans and Gregory L. Stoddart
- 31. Locating the Canadian Welfare State: Family Policy and Health Care in Canada, Sweden, and the United States / Gregg M. Olsen
- 32. Fiscal Crisis and Restructuring in Medicare: The Politics of Health in Canada / Mike Burke and H. Michael Stevenson
- 33. The Sociology of Health in Canada / David Coburn and Joan M. Eakin.
