Ideas about Illness: An Intellectual and Political History of Medical Sociology.

Part 1 The structural-functionalist paradigm: illness as social role and motivated deviance Parsons' notion of illness the capacity model the deviancy model structural-functionalist systems theory and two models of illness. Part 2 The interactionist paradigm: illness as professional construction the interactionist notion of illness the crisis model the negotiation model symbolic interactionism and the two models of illness. Part 3 The Phenomenological paradigm: illness as intersubjectively constructed reality the phenomenological notion of illness the trouble model phenomenology and the issues of responsibility. Part 4 The conflict-theory paradigm: illness as failure of resources and ideological construct the conflict notion of illness the loss model the domination-deprivation model conflict theory and the two models of illness.