Medical Sociology

ISBN-13: 9781032067933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 466 str.

William C. Cockerham

Opis

The most comprehensive textbook available on its topic, this classic book's principal goal has been to introduce students to medical sociology and serve as a reference for faculty. This new edition is heavily revised with updated data and important new additions.

Spis treści

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 7. Social Stress and Health 8. Health Behavior and Lifestyles 9. Illness Behavior and the Sick Role 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) 15. Hospitals 16. Health Care Reform and Public Policy in the United States 17. Global Health Care

O autorze

William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Research Scholar of Sociology at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. He held secondary appointments in medicine and public health at UAB and is recipient of several awards for scholarly distinction. He is past President of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association and formerly was on the editorial boards of several journals, including the American Sociological Review and Society and Mental Health. Currently, he is deputy editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and is author or editor of 20 books. Recent books are the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology ( 2021) and Social Causes of Health and Disease, 3rd ed. (2021). His newest books with Routledge are Sociological Theories of Health and Illness (2021), Sociology of Mental Disorder, 11th ed. (2021), and The COVID-19 Reader: What the Science Says About the Social (2021).