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Course Materials


Readings

Baum, F. The New Public Health: An Australian Perspective, Melbourne, OUP, 1998
Copy available in UNSW Library
Herzlich, Claudine (trans Graham, D), Health and Illness: A Social Psychological Analysis, Academic Press, London, 1973
Copy available in UNSW Library
Kleinman, A. Patients and Healers in the Context of Society: An Explanation of the Borderline between Anthropology, Medicine and Psychiatry, Berkeley, University of California, c. 1980
McCubbin, HI & Figley, CR (eds), Stress and the Family, New York, Brunner/Mazel, 1983
Copy available in UNSW Library
Marmot M& Wilkinson RG, eds, Social determinants of health, Oxford, OUP, 1999
Copy available in UNSW Library
Mechanic D Medical Sociology: A Selective Overview, Free Press, New York, 1968
Copy available in UNSW Library
Meadows, G. & Singh, B., et al (eds) Mental Health in Australia - Collaborative Community Practice, Melbourne, OUP, 2001
Copy available in UNSW Library
Richardson, G E, et al, The Resiliency Model, Health Education, Nov/Dec, 1990, 21(6):33-39
Reprint available from MyCourse (UNSW Library)
Rosenstock, I, "Why people use health services", Millbank Memorial Quarterly, 1966, 44:94 -127
Reprint available from MyCourse (UNSW Library)
Rowling, L, Martin, G & Walker, L, Mental health promotion and young people: Concepts and Practice, Roseville, NSW, McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd, 2002
Copy available in UNSW Library
Short, S, Sociological perspective: why do disadvantaged people behave so badly? in Harris, E, Sainsbury, P; Nutbeam, D, Perspectives on Health Inequity, Sydney, University of Sydney Press, 1999.
Copy available in UNSW Library
Suchman, E.A., Stages of Illness and Medical Care, Journal of Health and Human Behavior,
1965 6:114-128
Journal article available electronically from UNSW Library (click on red button next to "Full Text available via JSTOR")
Waitzkin, H, The Social Origins of Illness: A Neglected History, Int J of Health Services, 11(1), 1981:77-103
Reprint available from MyCourse (UNSW Library)
Young, A, The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness, Annual Review of Anthropology, 1982 11:257-285
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Legislation


Government Papers

State
NSW Department of Health
Mental Health Publications
Report of the Chief Health Officer
Parliament of NSW
NSW Legislative Assembly Tabled Papers
Parliamentary Library Research Papers
  
Federal
Human Rights and Mental Illness: Report of the National Inquiry into the Human
Rights of People with Mental Illness, No. 004/93, 1993. (The Burdekin Report)
Copy available in UNSW Library
Department of Health and Ageing
Mental Health & Wellbeing - Publication Resources
Parliament of Australia
Parliamentary Library Publications
Parliamentary Papers 1992-
Senate Reports
House of Representatives Reports