The most comprehensive major academic textbook available on its topic, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. Since its inception, this book's principal goal has been to introduce students to the field of medical sociology and serve as a reference for faculty by presenting the most current ideas, issues, concepts, themes, theories, and research findings in the field. This new edition is heavily revised with updated data and important new additions.
Author(s): William C. Cockerham
Edition: 15
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 466
City: London
Dedication
Contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1 Medical Sociology
2 Social Epidemiology
3 COVID-19
4 The Social Demography of Health: Social Class
5 The Social Demography of Health: Gender
6 The Social Demography of Health: Age and Race
PART II: HEALTH AND ILLNESS
7 Social Stress and Health
8 Health Behavior and Lifestyles
9 Illness Behavior and the Sick Role
PART III: PROVIDING HEALTH CARE
10 Doctor–Patient Interaction
11 Physicians
12 The Physician in a Changing Society
13 Nurses, Physician Assistants, Pharmacists, and Midwives
14 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
PART IV: HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS
15 Hospitals
16 Health Care Reform and Health Policy in the United States
17 Global Health Care
Name Index
Subject Index
