Waqar Ahmad & Hannah Bradby 
Ethnicity, Health and Health Care [PDF ebook] 
Understanding Diversity, Tackling Disadvantage

This volume considers the implications of national and
international social, political, and economic realities for health
and health care provision to minority ethnic groups.

* Addresses continuity and change in debates on ethnicity,
health, and health care

* Considers the implications of national and international
social, political, and economic realities for health and health
care provision to minority ethnic groups

* Represents the experiences of settled and new minority ethnic
groups, refugees, and asylum seekers across the world

* Includes international comparisons between Caribbean migrants
to the US and UK, the provision of interpreters in general practice
and the variations in uptake of disability living allowance across
ethnic groups

Spis treści

1. Locating Ethnicity and Health: Exploring Concepts and Contexts
(Waqar Ahmad and Hannah Bradby).

2. The Black Diaspora and Health Inequalities in the US and
England: Does Where You Go and How You Get There Make a Difference?
(James Nazroo).

3. Race and Nutrition: An Investigation of Black-White
Differences in Health-related Nutritional Behaviours (Peter Riley
Bahr).

4. Describing Depression: Ethnicity and the Use of Somatic
Imagery in Accounts of Mental Distress (Sara Mallinson and Jennie
Popay).

5. Hospice or Home? Expectations of End-of-life Care among White
and Chinese Older People in the UK (Jane Seymour, Sheila Payne,
Alice Chapman and Margaret Holloway).

6. Contextualising Accounts of Illness: Notions of
Responsibility and Blame in White and South Asian
Respondents’ Accounts of Diabetes Causation (Julia Lawton,
Naureen Ahmad, Elizabeth Peel and Nina Hallowell).

7. Long-term Health Conditions and Disability Living Allowance:
Exploring Ethnic Differences and Similarities in Access (Sarah
Salway, Lucinda Platt, Kaveri Harriss and Punita Chowbey).

8. Interpreted Consultations as 'Business as Usual’?
An Analysis of Organisational Routines in General Practices (Trisha
Greenhalgh, Christopher Voisey and Nadia Robb).

Index.

O autorze

Waqar I. U. Ahmad is a leading contributor to research on
ethnicity and health, especially in relation to disability and
chronic illness. He edited (with Charles Husband) the Open
University book series, Race, Health and Social Care. Waqar
has published in leading journals in social science
(Sociology, Social Science & Medicine,
Sociology of Health & Illness, Ageing and
Society) and medicine (The Lancet, Journal of Public
Health Medicine). He has been a member of the Economic and
Social Research Council’s Strategic Research Board (2002-06).
Outside of academia, Waqar has been Vice Chair of a Primary Care
Trust and Chief Social Scientist at the Office of the Deputy Prime
Minister (2001-04). He is Assistant Vice Chancellor (Research and
Enterprise) at Middlesex University.

Hannah Bradby has published research papers in
Sociology of Health & Illness, Ethnicity &
Health and Social Science & Medicine, among other
journals. Her latest book is an interpretation of medical sociology
for medical students, to be published in 2008 and she is the
monograph editor for Sociology of Health & Illness. She
teaches at the University of Warwick where she co-directs the
Institute of Health.