Bu makale, sağlığı, özellikle de son yıllarda sınırları giderek genişleyen sağlıkta deneyimlenen eşitsizliği, Fransız sosyolog Pierre Bourdieu’nün geliştirdiği kavramsal araçlarla ele alıyor. Makale, tıpkı ekonomik sermaye ya da kültürel gibi, sağlığın özgün bir türü olarak kavramsallaştırılması mümkün mü sorusunu soruyor. Makale ilk olarak, sağlık sosyolojisinin ana hatlarına odaklanıp, Durkhe...

In the last decades we have seen a growing interest in research into children's own experiences and understandings of health and illness. This development, we would argue, is much stimulated by the sociology of childhood which has drawn our attention to how children as a social group are placed and perceived within the structure of society, and within inter-generational relations, as well as ho...

Resource considerations have meant that brevity in health care interventions is a high priority, and have led to a constant striving after ever more impressive time efficiency. The UK's National Health Service may be described as a kind of 'fast healthcare', where everyone is task busy, time is money, bed spaces are frenetically shuffled so as to accommodate the most needy and there appears to ...