1  Imagining Health Problems as Social Issues
  John Germov

2  Theorising Health: Major Theoretical Perspectives in Health Sociology
John Germov

3  Researching Health: Methodological Traditions and Innovations
Douglas Ezzy

Part 2: The Social Production and Distribution of Health and Illness

4  Global Public Health
Alex Broom and John Germov

5  Class, Health Inequality, and Social Justice
John Germov

6  Workplace Health
Toni Schofield

7  Gender and Health
Dorothy Broom

8  Indigenous Health: The Perpetuation of Inequality
Dennis Gray and Sherry Saggers

9  Ethnicity, Health, and Multiculturalism
Roberta Julian

10  Rural Health
Clarissa Hughes

Part 3: The Social Construction of Health and Illness

11  The Social Appetite: A Sociology of Food and Nutrition
Lauren Williams and John Germov

12  The Medicalisation of Deviance 
Sharyn L. Roach Anleu

13  Mental Illness: Understandings, Experience and Service Provision 
Pauline Savy and Anne-Maree Sawyer

14  The Illness Experience: Lay Perspectives, Disability and Chronic Illness
Daphne Habibis

15  Ageing, Health and the Demographic Revolution
Marilyn Poole

16  The Human Genome Project: A Sociology of Medical Technology
Evan Willis

17  Media and Health
John Germov and Maria Freij

Part 4: The Social Organisation of Health Care: Professions, Politics, and Policies

18  Power, Politics, and Health Care
Helen Belcher

19  Challenges to Medical Dominance
John Germov

20  Sociology of Nursing
Helen Keleher

21  The Sociology of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Alex Broom

22  Jostling for Position: A Sociology of Allied Health
Lauren Williams

23  A Sociology of Health Promotion
Katy Richmond and John Germov

24  Community Health Services in Australia
Fran Baum

John Germov - Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Education and the Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, Australia