The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

486 Index
Bertens, Hans, 16
Beskid, Lidia, 341
Best, Steven, 14, 16
Beveridge (NHS) health care model, 165, 172,
252±3
Beveridge, William, 68, 450
Bezerra Jr., B., 238
Bhaskar, Roy, 18
Bhatti, Tariq, 206
Bib-Nun, Gavriel, 419
Bichat, Marie-FrancËois-Xavier, 264, 279
Bickel, Janet, 150
Biefang, S., 292
Bijlmakers, L. A., 371
biographical disruption, 257
Birkelund, Gunn E., 86, 87, 108
birth, certainty of, 43, 57
The Birth of the Clinic, 27
birth control, 137, 139, 407
see also contraception
Bismarck health care model, 164±5, 168, 172
Bittles, A. H., 400
Bizon, Zdzisøaw, 343
BjoÈ rklund, Anders, 303
black community, United States, 102
Black Report on Health Inequalities, 68, 69, 79,
107, 254, 305
Blair, Tony, 252
Blanco, JoseÂ, 222, 223
Blane, David, 10, 70
Blau, Peter M., 298
Blaxter, Mildred, 64, 70
Blendon, Robert J., 185, 189, 190, 458, 465, 473
Blishen, Bernard, 201, 207±8
blood contamination, 264, 275, 277
blood, diseases of, 337
blood lipids, 121
blood pressure, 119, 120, 121, 325
Bloom, Gerald, 467, 468, 470, 471, 472, 473
Bloom, Samuel, 238
Blumer, Herbert, 7, 8, 9
Bo, Xianfeng, 468
Bobak, Martin, 64, 350
bodily comforts, as basic human need, 25
Bodstein, R. C. A., 240±1
body
absence of, 52, 53
body projects, 49, 54
critical realism, 18
feminism, 15, 27
Foucault's analysis of, 14, 15, 46, 431
health care, 54±6
illness, 53±4, 60
images of, 49±51
lived body, 44±5, 51±4
and mind, 51, 54, 55±6
ontology of, 44
phenomenology, 44±5, 51±3
postmodernist discourses, 16, 49±50
presence in medical encounters, 146
and self, 52±4, 55±6
social construction of, 15, 44, 45
social regulation of, 44, 45±8
sociology of, 14±15, 43±61, 247, 250, 254,
255, 257
technology, 43, 49, 56±9
unbounded, 55±6
uncertainty about, 43, 44, 48±53, 56±9, 60
body paralysis, 54
body parts, 57
The Body and Society, 14, 44±5
Boerma, W. G., 168
Boikov, V., 323
Bolaria, B. Singh, 205, 206
Boltanski, Luc, 280
Bordieu, Pierre, 240
Borkan, Jeffrey, 423
Bosma, H., 121, 122
Botswana, 368
Bourdieu, Pierre, 12, 13, 17±18, 280
Bowling, Ann, 70
Boyd-Wickizer, J., 190
Boys in White, 7
Bradshaw, D., 381, 383, 384, 385
brain injuries, 54, 56
Braithwaite, Valerie, 99
Brandeis school, 152
BraÈnnstroÈ m, Inger, 313
Brazil, 233±42
birth rate, 233±4
divorce rate, 415
fertility rate, 415
gender differences in mortality, 101
health care system, 234±5
health characteristics, 233±6
marriage rate, 415
private health insurance, 234±5
Brazilian Center for Health
Studies, 239
Brazilian Graduate Association in
Collective Health, 239
breast cancer, 35, 97, 270
BreÂmond, Marc, 279
Brenner, H., 291
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich, 322
Brijlal, V., 378
Britain
African missionaries, 366
changes in economy, 246±7
collectivism, 246±7, 251, 253
community care policies, 106
corporatist model of policy-making, 208
depression, 270
gender differences in health, 105
gender differences in mortality, 101, 102
government control of insurance, 164
GP role, 160, 165, 168, 194
health care system, 160, 162, 164, 165, 166,
172, 252±3
health expenditure as share of GDP, 431
health inequalities, 65±6, 68, 83, 84, 86, 105,
107±8, 254±5