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/Cengage Learning, c2013

6th ed

Other Title

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

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-386) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Extremely student friendly and completely up to date, THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH, 6e delivers a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview that exposes the ethical dilemmas of modern health care and challenges readers to think analytically. Offering a sociological perspective on current topics, its unique critical perspective enables you to question your previously held beliefs about health and illness. Dr. Weitz's thorough discussions of health and medicine emphasize the effects of power and how social forces create illness, affect our ideas about the meaning of illness and disability, structure health care institutions, and impact the work and social position of health care workers. While the text focuses on health within the United States, it also examines global health care issues.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BB11535394
• ISBN:
  • 9781111828790
• LCCN: 2011932541
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xxvi, 406 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NLM : 2012 D-481
  • NLM : WA 31
• Subject Headings:
  • MESH : Social Medicine -- methods
  • MESH : Delivery of Health Care
  • MESH : Disease
  • MESH : Models, Theoretical
  • MESH : Socioeconomic Factors
  • LCSH : Social medicine
  • LCSH : Social medicine -- United States