Dear Joy,
Jane Sandall mentioned several good books. The Albrecht et al is excellent,
but expensive. I like :
M. Senior with B. Viveash (1998) Health & Illness, from Macmillan (now
Palgrave). chapter 2 ion this book is The social construction of health &
illness.
I have written an article on the social / medical model as used in pregnancy
and childbirth. This has lots of references to both midwifery and social
science literature which uses this model:
Teijlingen van, E. (2005) Models of pregnancy and childbirth: A sociological
analysis of the medical model, Sociological Research Online 10 (2) Web
address: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/2/teijlingen.html
Best wishes
Edwin
Dr. Edwin R. van Teijlingen
Reader in Public Health
Public Health & Dugald Baird Centre
University of Aberdeen
Medical School
Aberdeen AB25 2ZD
Scotland, UK
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Dear Joy
As a general social science and midwifery book, get Kent,J. (2000) Social
perspectives on pregnancy and childbirth, OUP.
Gabe,J.Bury,M.Elston,M. (2004) Key concepts in medical sociology, Sage. very
short 4 page coverage of key concepts. Includes health, social support,
class, health, ethnicity, medicalisation, reproduction etc. Good start
point.
Albrecht,GL. Fitzpatrick,R. Scromshaw,S. (2003) Handbook of Social studies
in medicine, Sage. Get for your library. This will give you virtually
everything you need including concepts of health in great detail.
bw
Jane Sandall
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From: "Joy Kemp" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 4:04 PM
Subject: Concepts of health
> Dear All
> Am trying to get my head around teaching concepts of health to new student
> midwives coming from a nursing background, and how this relates to
> midwifery. Am looking at technocratic vs midwifery models and the
> importance of a social model of birth. I know what I want to say but
> can't
> quite get my head around how to present it in a way which excites rather
> than mind-boggles. Am concious that this is such an important topic.
> Has anyone done teacing at a similar level before and would maybe like to
> share thoughts?
> Joy (new to teaching!)
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