Sociology as applied to nursing and health care / edited by Mary Birchenall, Peter Birchenall.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Section 1: Introducing the Sociology of Health Care -- Studying Sociology in Nursing -- Sociology and Everyday Life -- Society and the Individual : Gender, Race and Age -- Introducing Theory in Sociology. Section 2 : Inequalities in Health -- Poverty in Health Care -- Disadvantaged Groups in Health Care -- The Social Interpretation of Deviance. Section 3: The Social Context of Nursing -- Nurses, Clients and Power -- Professional and Educational Directions. Section 4 : Health Policy in Relation to Nursing -- The Changing Shape of the National Health Service -- Caring in a Mixed Economy -- Section 5 : Sociological Perspectives in Nursing -- Nursing and Social Theory. Glossary.

Discusses those aspects of sociology which are most relevant to nursing and the health care context in which it takes place.