An outline of sociology as applied to medicine
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An outline of sociology as applied to medicine
Wright, 1989
3rd ed
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Bibliography: pp.131-136
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Since the last edition of this book, published in 1983, the text has been rewritten and rearranged to give an updated overview of the subject. The emphasis is on providing a framework for understanding the relationship between health care and the society in which it occurs.
Table of Contents
- Going to the doctor
- measuring health and illness
- social causes of illness
- labelling behaviour
- social patterns of illness
- coping with illness
- models of illness
- types of health care
- clinical autonomy
- delivering health care
- evaluating health care
- the social basis of disease
- the social role of medicine.
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