Medical sociology / William C. Cockerham.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Routledge 2017Edition: Fourteenth editionDescription: 480 pages : illustrations (black and white)ISBN:- 9781138668324 (pbk.) :
- 113866832X
- 9781138668324
- 1138668338
- 9781138668331
- 306.461 COC
- RA418 .C657 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Contents] PART I INTRODUCTION. -- 1 Medical Sociology. -- 2 Epidemiology. -- 3 The Social Demography of Health: Social Class. -- 4 The Social Demography of Health: Gender, Age, and Race. -- PART II HEALTH AND ILLNESS. -- 5 Social Stress and Health. -- 6 Health Behavior and Lifestyles. -- 7 Illness Behavior 162. -- PART III SEEKING HEALTH CARE. -- 8 The Sick Role. -- 9 Doctor-Patient Interaction. -- PART IV PROVIDING HEALTH CARE. -- 10 Physicians. -- 11 The Physician in a Changing Society. -- 12 Nurses, Physician Assistants, Pharmacists, and Midwives. -- 13 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). -- PART V HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS. -- 14 Hospitals. -- 15 Health Care Reform and Health Policy in the United States. -- 16 Global Health Care.
The most thorough major academic textbook available, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author also integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians and other health care providers throughout the text. A much greater number of first person accounts and updated examples are added to the new fourteenth edition.