Social causes of health and disease / William C. Cockerham.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity, 2013.Edition: Second editionDescription: vii, 255 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780745661209 (pbk.) :
- 074566119X (hardback)
- 0745661203
- 9780745661209 (paperback)
- 9780745661193 (hardback)
- 0745661203 (paperback)
- 306.461 COC
- RA418 .C658 2013
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Previous edition: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-241) and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The Social Causation of Health and Disease -- 2. Theorizing about Health and Disease -- 3. Health Lifestyles -- 4. The Power of Class -- 5. Class and Health: Explaining the Relationship -- 6. Age, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity as Structural Variables -- 7. Living Conditions and Neighborhood Disadvantage -- 8. Health and Social Capital.
William Cockerham assesses the evidence that social factors have direct causal effects on health and many diseases. He argues that stress, poverty, unhealthy lifestyles and unpleasant living and work conditions can all be directly associated with illness.