Ideas about Illness: An Intellectual and Political History of Medical Sociology (Studies in Historical Sociology)

A book on the history of ideas of medical sociology which is part of a series, designed to relate a diversity of empirical areas to central problems of sociological theory. This volume aims to provide an overview of sociology's conceptualization of illness. Front Matter....Pages i-xxix Front Matter....Pages 1-4 Parsons’ Notion of Illness....Pages 5-15 The Capacity Model....Pages 16-33 The Deviancy Model....Pages 34-59 Structural-Functionalist Systems Theory and the Two Models of Illness....Pages 60-71 Front Matter....Pages 73-81 The Interactionist Notion of Illness....Pages 82-90 The Crisis Model....Pages 91-122 The Negotiation Model....Pages 123-156 ‘Symbolic Interactionism’ and the Two Models of Illness....Pages 157-177 Front Matter....Pages 179-187 The Phenomenological Notion of Illness....Pages 188-196 The Trouble Model....Pages 197-228 Phenomenology and the Issues of Responsibility....Pages 229-247 Front Matter....Pages 249-258 The Conflict Notion of Illness....Pages 259-276 The Loss Model....Pages 277-307 The Domination-Deprivation Model....Pages 308-334 Conflict Theory and the Two Models of Illness....Pages 335-351 Back Matter....Pages 352-425 In this book, Uta Gerhardt maintains that the sociological definition of deviance as disease has, at its roots, a political connotation. She traces how the four schools of mid- and late-twentieth century sociology have dealt with the idea of illness from structural functionalism through interactionism and phenomenology to conflict theory.