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Margaret Stacey

the sociology of health and healing

Hannah Bradby

pp. 262-272

Abstract

Margaret (Meg) Stacey (1922–2004) played key roles in establishing sociology as a university-based discipline in Britain and in developing a sociology of medicine, health and illness as a distinct specialism. This chapter outlines her biography and career, during which she helped to consolidate a sociology of health and illness that attends to inequality of various forms, offers critical perspectives on orthodox medicine through a comparative approach and that is committed to theoretical and empirical development. Her interests in the gendered division of labour, her feminist commitment, and a concern to address suffering, are considered in assessing her influence on the discipline.

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Published in:

Collyer Fran (2015) The Palgrave handbook of social theory in health, illness and medicine. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 262-272

DOI: 10.1057/9781137355621_17

Full citation:

Bradby Hannah (2015) „Margaret Stacey: the sociology of health and healing“, In: F. Collyer (ed.), The Palgrave handbook of social theory in health, illness and medicine, Dordrecht, Springer, 262–272.