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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Contents
Ways of Thinking Sociologically about Health Illness and Medicine | 2 |
Ways of Studying Health Illness and Medicine Sociologically | 24 |
Sociology of Health and Illness | 41 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada |
| Author | Juanne Nancarrow Clarke |
| Edition | 4, illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2004 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | Jun 2, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0195419014, 9780195419016 |
| Length | 441 pages |
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