The sociology of health, illness, and health care : a critical approach

Author(s)

• Weitz, Rose

Bibliographic Information

The sociology of health, illness, and health care : a critical approach

Rose Weitz

Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, c2001

2nd ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-469) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This text adopts a critical perspective, which challenges medical perspectives and sometimes raises broader issues beyond those of interest to the medical world. This perspective, which is thoroughly sociological, is now becoming more common than the older medical perspective.

Table of Contents

• The social sources of illness
• the social distribution of illness in the united states
• illness in the developing nations
• the social meanings of illness
• the experience of chronic illness and disability
• (Part Contents)

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Details

• NCID: BA55141570
• ISBN:
  • 0534247563
• LCCN: 00042301
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Belmont, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 476 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RA418.3.U6
  • DC21 : 306.4/61
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Social medicine
  • LCSH : Social medicine -- United States
  • LCSH : Medical personnel and patient
  • LCSH : Social control