Health, Illness, and Medicine in CanadaUsing four different sociological perspectives--structural-funcational, conflict, symbolic interactionist, and feminist--Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada 4e provides an essential study to the sociology of health. The text examines occupational diseases, environmental challenges, the inequalities of age, gender, class, race, and ethnicity, the experience of getting sick and going to the doctor, and the extensive and profit-motivated impact of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. |
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... associated with poorer health . Aboriginal Canadians have dramatically different life chances ( in respect to morbidity and mortality ) than non - Aboriginal Canadians . Political power seems to be associated with health status ...
... associated with poorer health . Aboriginal Canadians have dramatically different life chances ( in respect to morbidity and mortality ) than non - Aboriginal Canadians . Political power seems to be associated with health status ...
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... associated with socio - demographic variables . In an analysis of the 1994-5 National Population Health Survey , based on a national probability sample , Segall and his colleagues found that people of higher socio - economic status had ...
... associated with socio - demographic variables . In an analysis of the 1994-5 National Population Health Survey , based on a national probability sample , Segall and his colleagues found that people of higher socio - economic status had ...
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... associated with them . Disease is seen as much more than a mechanical failure , a physiological pathology ( Clarke , 1992a ) . Table 8.1 portrays the findings . The moral worth of the person with cancer is attacked by the invasion of an ...
... associated with them . Disease is seen as much more than a mechanical failure , a physiological pathology ( Clarke , 1992a ) . Table 8.1 portrays the findings . The moral worth of the person with cancer is attacked by the invasion of an ...
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