The sociology of health, healing, and illness
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The sociology of health, healing, and illness
Prentice Hall, c1997
2nd ed
Available at 12 libraries
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  Netherlands
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Updated to reflect important changes in health care in society and significant advancements in medical sociology, this text provides an overview of the field, offering coverage of traditional topics, current issues and public policy debates affecting the field.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Perspectives on the sociology of health, healing and illness: an introduction to the sociology of health, healing and illness
- the development of scientific medicine. Part 2 The influence of the social environment on health and illness: social epidemiology
- disease and illness in American society
- social stress. Part 3 Health and illness behaviours: health behaviour
- illness and sick role behaviour. Part 4 Health care practitioners and their relationships with patients: physicians and the profession of medicine
- medical education and the socialization of physicians
- nurses, mid-level health care practitioners, and allied health workers
- alternative healers and alternative healing practices
- the physician-patient relationship
- professional and ethical obligations of physicians in the physician-patient relationship. Part 5 The health care system: the United States health care system
- health care delivery
- the social implications of health care technology
- comparative health care systems.
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