The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

494 Index
Foucault, Michel (cont.)
culture, 27, 37
development of the clinic, 274, 279
discourse analysis, 240, 280
disease, 14
disregard of agency, 16
knowledge/power, 14, 15, 16
medical power, 14, 152±3, 431
medical profession, 152±3
western biomedicine, 35
Fourie, A., 372, 374
Fourie, J., 382
Fournier, Pierre, 34
Fox, A. J., 271
Fox, John, 79
Fox, Nicholas, 16, 152, 251, 257
Fox, Rene, 28, 36
fragmentation, 16
Fragoso, Ana, 222
France, 263±81
African missionaries, 366
alcohol use, 263, 265, 267, 269, 270, 271,
304±5
alternative medicine, 273
cancers, 269, 270, 275±6, 280
cardiovascular diseases, 263, 267, 269
confidentiality, 276
diet, 263
divorce rate, 415
educational levels, 302
elderly, 280
fertility rate, 415
gender disparities, 269±70
general practitioners, 273
health care system, 165, 266, 272±80
health expenditure per capita, 264
health inequalities, 83, 84
heart disease, 263
high-risk behaviors, 267±9
HIV/AIDS, 268, 269, 276±8, 281n
hospitals, 264, 273, 280, 281n
illegal immigrants, 128
infant mortality, 264, 267, 270, 271
informed consent, 276
institutional care, 172
life expectancy, 263±4, 267, 270±1, 298
marriage rate, 415
medical culture, 170
medical profession, 275±6, 279
medical sociology, 264, 278±80
mortality, 82, 83, 84, 85, 269±71
non-manual workers, 302
patient access to medical charts, 275, 276
perception of health problems, 264±7
physicians, 273, 275±6, 279, 327
postmodernism, 16
professional home care, 172
public health policy, 264, 266, 274±8
smoking, 263, 265, 267±8, 270, 305
social demography of health, 264±72
social and regional disparities, 270±2
state involvement in health care system, 272,
273±5
unemployment, 265±6, 269
women physicians, 150
Frank, A., 49±50
Frank, Arthur W., 257
Frank, John, 206, 207
Frankford, D. M., 193
free will, 6
Freidson, Eliot, 6, 8, 11, 35, 146±7, 148, 151,
182
French Jr., J. P. R., 129
Frenk, Julio, 215, 217, 221±2
Freud, Sigmund, 5±6
Freund, Peter, 9, 60, 256
Frick, Kaj, 312
Frideres, James S., 206
Fritzell, Johan, 86
frustration, 116
Fuhrer, Rebecca, 104
Fuller, Colleen, 200, 204, 209
functional processes, 6
functionalist theory, 145, 148, 153, 238, 240
see also structural±functionalism
Fyle, C. M., 366, 370, 371
Gabe, Jonathan, 15, 57, 250
Gabel, J. R., 186, 191
Gaete, J. E., 238
Gaigher, R., 378
gain sharing models, 122
Gallagher, Eugene, 160, 170, 397, 398, 399,
404, 405
Garbe, E., 136
Garbe, S., 136
GarcõÂa, J. C., 237, 238
Garcia, Jo, 96
GardunÄ o, MarõÂa, 225
Garfinkel, Harold, 53
Garland, Neal T., 168, 169
Garza Toledo, E. de, 237
gastro-intestinal diseases, 383
Geertsen, R., 31
Geertz, Clifford, 240
Geiler, H., 119
Gelfand, M., 367
gender
alcohol use, 101, 103, 105
analysis of health, 99±100
Arab medical education, 405±6
differences in care establishments, 106
differences in morbidity, 104±5, 301
disability, 105, 106
effect on mortality, 101±3, 269, 300, 313
explanations of differences, 103±4
health care work, 149±50
health inequalities, 75, 87, 94±109, 250
health inequalities in France, 269±70
health inequalities in Germany, 291
health inequalities in Israel, 417±19
illness behavior, 97