The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness
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The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness is a comprehensive medical sociology textbook that covers traditional topics in medical sociology, while providing significant coverage of current issues related to health, healing, and illness. This text integrates recent research in medical sociology and emphasizes the importance of race, class, and gender throughout. Booknews Presenting an overview of the field of medical sociology, this text aims to include new perspectives and research findings; cover gender, race, and class issues as they relate to health, healing, and illness; and provide insight into significant social policy questions. Pedagogical features include chapter summaries, list of terms, discussion cases, and new end-of-chapter Internet resource information. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Ch. 1A brief introduction to the sociology of health, healing, and illness1Ch. 2The development of scientific medicine12Ch. 3Social epidemiology34Ch. 4Society, disease, and illness58Ch. 5Social stress85Ch. 6Health behavior107Ch. 7Experiencing illness and disability126Ch. 8Physicians and the profession of medicine150Ch. 9Medical education and the socialization of physicians175Ch. 10Nurses, mid-level health care practitioners, and allied health workers196Ch. 11Complementary and alternative medicine219Ch. 12The physician-patient relationship : background and models245Ch. 13Professional and ethical obligations of physicians in the physician-patient relationship270Ch. 14The health care system of the United States289Ch. 15Health care delivery314Ch. 16The social implications of advanced health care technology336Ch. 17Comparative health care systems363
