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A comprehensive collection of original essays by leading medical sociologists from around the world, fully updated to reflect contemporary research and global health issues
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is an authoritative overview of the most recent research, major theoretical approaches, and central issues and debates within the field. Bringing together contributions from an international team of leading scholars, this wide-ranging volume summarizes significant new developments and discusses a broad range of globally-relevant topics. The Companion's twenty-eight chapters contain timely, theoretically-informed coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and emerging diseases, bioethics, healthcare delivery systems, health disparities associated with migration, social class, gender, and race. It also explores mental health, the family, religion, and many other real-world health concerns.
The most up-to-date and comprehensive single-volume reference on the key concepts and contemporary issues in medical sociology, this book:
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in medical sociology, health studies, and health care, as well as for academics, researchers, and practitioners wanting to keep pace with new developments in the field.
William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, and Research Scholar of Sociology at the College of William & Mary, USA. He is past President of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association, and has held editorial positions on a number of journals, including the American Sociological Review, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Society and Mental Health. His recent books include Sociological Theories of Health and Illness and Social Causes of Health and Disease.
PART I INTRODUCTION
Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory
Health and Culture
The Sociology of the Body
PART II HEALTH AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
Health and Social Stratification
Health Status and Gender
Health, Ethnicity, and Race
PART III HEALTH AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
Health and Religion
Health Lifestyles: Bringing Structure Back
Social Capital and Health
Medicalization, Social Control, and the Relief of Suffering
Stress in the Workplace
PART IV HEALTH AND DISEASE
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Chronic Illness
PART V HEALTH CARE DELIVERY
Health Professions and Occupations
Challenges to the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The American Health Care System
The British Health Care System
The Chinese Health Care System
The Convergence and Divergence of Modern Health Care Systems
Social Policies and Health Inequalities
PART VI NEW DEVELOPMENTS
A Sociological Gaze on Bioethics
Medical Sociology and Genetics
New Developments in Neuroscience and Medical Sociology
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