Main group 1

Preparatory reading

• Bradby, Hannah, Medical sociology: an introduction, London, SAGE Publications, 2009Compulsory*
• Nettleton, Sarah, The sociology of health and illness, 3. ed., Cambridge, Polity, 2013Compulsory*

Other course litterature

• Bradby, Hannah, Medicine, Health and Society: A Critical Sociology, Sage Publications, 2012
• Wilkinson, Richard G.; Pickett, Kate, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better, London, Allen Lane, 2009
• Parsons, Talcott, The social system., Glencoe, Ill., 1951 (Chapter X)
• Frank, Arthur W., The wounded storyteller: body, illness, and ethics, Second edition., Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2013
• Bourdieu, Pierre.; Nice, Richard., Outline of a Theory of Practice, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977 (Chapter II)
• Durkheim, Emile, Suicide: a study in sociology, Snowballpublishing, 2013
• Schelling, Thomas C., Micromotives and macrobehavior: with a new preface and the Nobel Lecture, Rev. ed., New York, W. W. Norton, cop. 2006
• Wasserman, Danuta; Wasserman, Camilla, Oxford textbook of suicidology and suicide prevention: a global perspective, Oxford, Oxford University Press, cop. 2009 (pp. 139–147 - Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen)
• Bruce, Nigel; Pope, Daniel; Stanistreet, Debbi, Quantitative methods for health research: a practical interactive guide to epidemiology and statistics, Chichester, England, John Wiley & Sons, c2008 (Chapter II & III)

A selection of articles from international journals will be used.

* Compulsory