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HANDBOOK OF MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY, SIXTH EDITION By Chloe E. Bird & Peter Conrad

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ISBN-10
0826517218
Book Title
Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition
ISBN
9780826517210

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN-10
0826517218
ISBN-13
9780826517210
eBay Product ID (ePID)
79747055

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Ethics, Public Policy / Social Policy, Women's Studies, Disease & Health Issues
Features
New Edition
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science, Medical
Author
Peter Conrad
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
36 Oz
Item Length
10.9 in
Item Width
7.9 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number
6
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2009-047976
Reviews
"I recommend this book strongly as a breath of fresh air (seemingly from Mars) into our stuffy medical realm." -- Howard Spiro , Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Yale Medical School, "I recommend this book strongly as a breath of fresh air (seemingly from Mars) into our stuffy medical realm." Howard Spiro, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Yale Medical School, "I recommend this book strongly as a breath of fresh air (seemingly from Mars) into our stuffy medical realm." - Howard Spiro , Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Yale Medical School
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.1
Table Of Content
Preface to the Sixth Edition Chloe E. Bird, Peter Conrad, Allen M. Fremont, and Stefan Timmermans Part I: Social Contexts and Health Disparities 1. Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities Bruce Link and Jo Phelan 2. Social Capital and Health Ichiro Kawachi 3. Why Education Is the Key to Socioeconomic Differentials in Health Catherine E. Ross and John Mirowsky 4. Understanding Gender and Health: Old Patterns, New Trends, and Future Directions Patricia P. Rieker, Chloe E. Bird, and Martha E. Lang 5. Social Support, Sex, and Food: Social Networks and Health Gina S. Lovasi, jimi adams, and Peter S. Bearman 6. Race, Social Contexts, and Health: Examining Geographic Spaces and Places David T. Takeuchi, Emily Walton, and ManChui Leung 7. The Latino Health Paradox: Looking at the Intersection of Sociology and Health Tamara Dubowitz, Lisa M. Bates, and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia 8. A Life-Course Approach to the Study of Neighborhoods and Health Stephanie A. Robert, Kathleen A. Cagney, and Margaret M. Weden Part II: Health Trajectories and Experiences 9. The Social Construction of Illness: Medicalization and Contested Illness Kristin K. Barker 10. The Patient''s Experience of Illness David A. Rier 11. The Internet and the Experience of Illness Peter Conrad and Cheryl Stults 12. The Sociology of Disability: Historical Foundations and Future Directions Gary L. Albrecht 13. Death, Dying, and the Right to Die Clive Seale Part III: Health-Care Organization, Delivery, and Impact 14. Gender and Health Care Renee R. Anspach 15. Institutional Change and the Organization of Health Care: The Dynamics of "Muddling Through" Peter Mendel and W. Richard Scott 16. Health-Care Professions, Markets, and Countervailing Powers Donald W. Light 17. The Sociological Concomitants of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Medications John Abraham 18. Evidence-Based Medicine: Sociological Explorations Stefan Timmermans 19. The Sociology of Quality and Safety in Health Care: Studying a Movement and Moving Sociology Teun Zuiderent-Jerak and Marc Berg Part IV: Crosscutting Issues 20. Religion, Spirituality, Health, and Medicine: Sociological Intersections Wendy Cadge and Brian Fair 21. Health, Security, and New Biological Threats: Reconfigurations of Expertise Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff 22. Health Social Movements: History, Current Work, and Future Directions Phil Brown, Crystal Adams, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Laura Senier, and Ruth Simpson 23. The Application of Biomarker Data to the Study of Social Determinants of Health Regina A. Shih, Meenakshi M. Fernandes, and Chloe E. Bird 24. Gene-Environment Interaction and Medical Sociology Sara Shostak and Jeremy Freese 25. Biotechnology and the Prolongation of Life: A Sociological Critique Bryan S. Turner Contributors Index
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by many outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this volume has new chapters on topics that include: * social networks, neighborhoods, and social capital * disability * dying and "the right to die" * health disparities * the growing influence of the pharmaceutical industry * the Internet * evidence-based medicine and quality of care * health social movements * genetics * religion, spirituality, and health, Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by many outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this volume has new chapters on topics that include: - social networks, neighborhoods, and social capital - disability - dying and "the right to die" - health disparities - the growing influence of the pharmaceutical industry - the Internet - evidence-based medicine and quality of care - health social movements - genetics - religion, spirituality, and health
LC Classification Number
RA418.H29 2010

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