The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

by Cockerham, William C.

• ISBN13: 9781405188685
• ISBN10: 1405188685
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

An authoritative, topical, and comprehensive reference to the key concepts and most important traditional and contemporary issues in medical sociology. Contains 35 chapters by recognized experts in the field, both established and rising young scholars Covers standard topics in the field as well as new and engaging issues such as bioterrorism, bioethics, and infectious disease Chapters are thematically arranged to cover the major issues of the sub-discipline Global range of contributors and an international perspective

Author Biography

William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Social Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA). He is President of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association and a current member of the Editorial Board of the American Sociological Review. His recent books include Social Causes of Health and Disease (2007), Medical Sociology, 11th edition (2010), and the co-authored Health and Globalization (2010).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. viii
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory	p. 3
Health and Culture	p. 27
The Sociology of the Body	p. 47
Health and Social Inequalities	p. 69
Health and Social Stratification	p. 71
Health Status and Gender	p. 97
Health, Ethnicity, and Race	p. 113
Health and social relationships	p. 131
Health and Religion	p. 133
Health Lifestyles: Bringing Structure Back	p. 159
Social Capital and Health	p. 184
Medicalization, Social Control, and the Relief of Suffering	p. 211
Stress	p. 242
Stress in the Workplace	p. 268
Health and Disease	p. 289
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Urbanization, and Globalization in the Time of Global Warming	p. 291
Chronic Illness	p. 312
Health Care Delivery	p. 335
Health Professions and Occupations	p. 337
Challenges to the Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Twenty-First Century	p. 355
Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Processes of Legitimation, Professionalization, and Cooption	p. 373
The American Health Care System: Beginning the Twenty-First Century with High Risk, Major Challenges, and Great Opportunities	p. 391
The British Health Care System	p. 412
The Convergence and Divergence of Modern Health Care Systems	p. 434
Social Policies and Health Inequalities	p. 455
New Developments	p. 485
A Sociological Gaze on Bioethics	p. 487
Medical Sociology and Genetics	p. 511
New Developments in Neuroscience and Medical Sociology	p. 530
Author Index	p. 552
Subject Index	p. 584
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