Medical Sociology

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Routledge, Sep 7, 2015 - Social Science - 448 pages

For upper-division undergraduate/beginning graduate-level courses in Medical Sociology, and for Behavioral Science courses in schools of Public Health, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing. A comprehensive overview of the most current issues in medical sociology. The standard text in the field, Medical Sociology presents the discipline’s most recent and relevant ideas, concepts, themes, issues, debates, and research findings. To draw students into the course, author Dr. William Cockerham integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. The Thirteenth Edition addresses the current changes stemming from health care reform in the United States, and other issues that reflect the focus of the field today.

 

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Contents

Preface
Medical Sociology
Epidemiology
The Components of Social Class
HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Modern Diseases and the Poor
Gender
Health Behavior and Lifestyles
Physicians
The Physician in a Changing Society
Nurses Physician Assistants Pharmacists
Healing Options
The Hospital in Society
Rising Costs
Global Health Care
Credits

Illness behavior
8 SEEKING HEALTH CARE The Sick Role
DoctorPatient Interaction
Name Index
Subject Index
Copyright

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Medical Sociology
William C. Cockerham
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William C. Cockerham
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About the author (2015)

William C. Cockerham received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also Co-Director of the UAB Center for Social Medicine and holds secondary appointments in medicine and public health. He is the recipient of the UAB Connors Prize in the History of Ideas and the Ireland Award for Distinguished Scholarship. Currently, he is serving as the President of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association and is on the Editorial Board of the American Sociological Review. Dr. Cockerham has published numerous peer-reviewed papers in academic journals and is author or editor of fourteen books. His most recent books published by Pearson include Medical Sociology, Thirteenth Edition (2015) and The Sociology of Mental Disorder, Eighth Edition (2010).

Bibliographic information

TitleMedical Sociology
AuthorWilliam C. Cockerham
Edition13, revised
PublisherRoutledge, 2015
ISBN1317346483, 9781317346487
Length448 pages
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Social Science / Disease & Health Issues
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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