White, Dr Kevin BA PhD Flinders Reader in Sociology     Office: Haydon-Allen 2154 Contact Number: 612 54561 Email: Kevin.White@anu.edu.au

Research and teaching interests: The Sociology of Health and Illness; The Historical Sociology of Health; Medicine and Social Problems; Privatisation, the market and health.

2008 Courses:

Semester One
SOCY 3021 – The Sociology of Health and Illness

Semester Two
SOCY1004 - Introduction to Social Psychology

Publications (since 1999):

Books

(2008) An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness, 2nd Revised Edition, London, Sage.

(2006) The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society, 1^st Edition, pp242, London, Sage

(2006) Coleman, E. and White, K. (eds) Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society,  Canberra, ANUe Press

with Greig, A., Lewins, F., (2003) Inequality in Australia, 1st Edition, pp 295, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.

(2002) An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness, 1st Edition, pp xi + 191, Sage Publications Ltd., London.

(2001) The Origins of the Sociology of Health, (edited and introduced in 6 vols) October 2001, London: Routledge.

Journal Articles

(2002) “Understanding Health: A sociological discussion”, Health Sociology Review, Vol 12, Issue 1, pp 95-96.

with Willis, E., (2002) “Positivism resurgent: the epistemological foundations of evidence-based medicine”, Health Sociology Review, Vol 11, Issue 1 & 2, pp 5-15.

(2002) “Vulnerability to Sickness and Disease”, Contemporary Nurse, Vol 13, Issue 1, pp 5-9.

(2001) "What's Happening in General Practice? Monopolisation and State Administrative Control: A Profession Bailing Out?", Annual Review of Health Social Sciences, vol. 10, July 2001.

(2000) "The State, the Market and General Practice in Australia", International Journal of Health Services, 2000, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 285-302.

(2001) "Life Insurance the Medical Examination and Cultural Values", Journal of Historical Sociology, 2001, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 190-215.

(1999) "Health Care Markets in Australia: Ownership of the Private Hospital Sector", International Journal of Health Services, 1998, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 487-510.

Chapters

Entries in the Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology ( 2006, ed B. S. Turner): Falsification; hypothetico-deductive method; causality; empiricism; grounded theory; death; professions; occupation; career

Coleman, E. and White, K. (2006) ‘Stretching the Sacred’, in Coleman, E. and White, K. (eds) Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society. (Canberra, ANUe Press)

Coleman, E. and White, K. (2006) ‘Blasphemy and Sacrilege in Contemporary Australia’, in Coleman, E and White, K. (eds) Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society. (Canberra, ANUe Press)

with Willis, E., (2004) “Evidence-based medicine and CAM”, in The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Philip Tovey, Gary Easthope and Jon Adams (eds), 1st Edition, Routledge Publishing, London, pp 49-63.

(2004) “The Social Origins of illness and the development of the sociology of health”, in Health in Australia: Sociological concepts and issues, Carol Grbich, Melbourne, Longman, (3^rd rev. ed.) pp 37-54.

(2004) “Why politicians don’t Lie: Health, the Body and Neo Liberalism”, in An ABC of Lying: Taking Stock in Interesting Times, Livio Dobrez, Patricia Dobrez, Jan Lloyd Jones (eds) 1st Edition, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, pp 154-164.

with Willis, E., (2003) “Evidence Based Medicine, the Medical Profession and Health Policy”, in Evidence-based Health Policy: problems and possibilities, Vivian Lin and Brendan Gibson (eds) 1st Edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne Victoria, pp 33-43.

(2003) “Health and illness”, in Sociology: Australian Connections, R. Jureidini and M Poole (eds) Third Edition, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, pp 361-380.

(2000) "The Sociology of Health and Illness", Sociology, in Jureidini, R., Kenny, S. and Poole, M. (eds), 2000, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, pp. 328-348.

(1999) "The Sociology of Medicine: Theoretical Models", Health and Health Care in New Zealand Society, in Davies, P. and Dew, K. (eds), 1999, Auckland: OUP, pp. 19-34.

(1999) "The Social Origins of Illness and the Development of the Sociology of Health", Health in Australia: Sociological Concepts and Issues, Carol Grbich, Melbourne, Longman, (2nd rev. ed), Sydney: Prentice-Hall, pp. 35-52.