The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

poverty
Africa, 370
Brazil, 235±6
Britain, 302
cause of migration, 126±7
Denmark, 303
deviant behavior, 9
health inequalities, 59, 66, 302±3, 311
Ireland, 302
Israel, 416
Russia, 320
South Africa, 381
Sweden, 302±3, 311
United States, 182, 190
Powell, Margaret, 446, 447, 450
Powell, Walter W., 163
power
disciplinary power, 46
experience of illness, 256±7
and knowledge, 14, 15, 16
of medicine, 14, 152±3, 431
poststructuralism, 14, 16, 431
social constructionism, 15, 152±3
social practices, 17
power distance, 170±1
Prado, Carlos Alberto, 220
pragmatic acculturation, 26±7, 30±1, 36±7
predictability, 17
predictive tests, 58
preferred provider organizations (PPOs), 185,
186
pregnancy
fetus scanning, 50±1
France, 271
Mexican studies, 225
sociology of the body, 55
women's health, 95±6
Press, I., 35
prestige, as measure of social stratification, 71
Preston, Samuel H., 300
Pretorius, E., 367
prevention paradox, 66
preventive health behavior, 28, 29±31
preventive health care
Canada, 199
China, 458, 467, 468
Soviet Union, 327
Sweden, 310, 311±13
USA, 190
Price, C., 126, 132
Price, M., 373
primary health care, 160, 173
Africa, 371, 372
Britain, 250, 310
Czech Republic, 358
Israel, 419
Norway, 310
Poland, 338, 343
Russia, 327
South Africa, 376, 380
Sweden, 308, 310
Index 509
primates, 59
Pringle, Rosemary, 150, 431
prisons, regulation of bodies, 46
process theory, 117
The Profession of Medicine, 146±7
professions
sociology of, 145±6
see also general practitioners; medical
profession; midwifery; nursingprofession;
physicians
profit motive, 10, 12
prostate problems, 98
prostate surgery, 183
prosthetics, 57
prostitution, 100
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 5,
24
Psathas, George, 146
psychiatric disorders
Australia, 436
Dubai, 407
gender differences, 105
Germany, 292
Poland, 344
work stress, 120, 121
psychiatry, 5
psychoanalysis, 5
psychological distress, 135
public health, 3, 14, 160
AIDS prevention in Thailand, 31
China, 458, 467
France, 264, 266, 274±8
Poland, 344
Public Health Act (1848) (Britain), 66
Puchalski, Krzysztof, 344
Qatar, medical schools, 403
Qien Xinzhong, 464, 467
Quah, Stella R., 26, 30, 31, 33, 36
quality management techniques, 114
Quandagno, Jill, 416
Quesnel, AndreÂ, 225
Qvarsell, Roger, 298, 311
Qvist, Carl, 67
racism
Australia, 429, 436±7
South Africa, 366, 373, 375
Radley, Alan, 15
Radochonski, Mieczysøaw, 344
Raffel, Marshall W., 173
Rahav, Giora, 419
Rahkonen, Ossi, 79, 80, 82, 87, 101, 107
RamõÂrez, Juan Carlos, 225
Ranade, Wendy, 252, 253
rape, 100
Raspe, H. H., 292
rationality
formal versus substantive, 11±12
postmodernism, 16
as value orientation, 36