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(2015) The Palgrave handbook of social theory in health, illness and medicine, Dordrecht, Springer.
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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Bradby, H. (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, pp. 262-272.
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