The sociology of health, healing, and illness
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The sociology of health, healing, and illness
Routledge, 2021
10th ed
- : pbk
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"First edition published by Prentice Hall 1994"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook has been widely acclaimed by teachers as the most accessible of any available. It introduces and integrates recent research in medical sociology and emphasizes the importance of race, class, gender, and sexuality throughout.
This new edition leads students through the complexities of the evolving Affordable Care Act. It significantly expands coverage of medical technology, end-of-life issues, and alternative and complementary health care-topics that students typically debate in the classroom. While the COVID-19 pandemic emerged after this edition of the text was originally submitted, material has been added in Chapters 3, 10, and 13 about it. Many new text boxes and enhancements in pedagogy grace this new edition, which is essential in the fast-changing area of health care.
New to this edition:
More text boxes relating the social aspects of medicine to students' lives.
Expanded coverage leading students through the complex impacts of the ACA and health care reform.
Greater emphasis on sexual minority health and LGBTQ+ persons' experiences in the health care system.
Expanded coverage of medical technology, end-of-life issues, and alternative and complementary health care.
"Health and the Internet" sections are updated and renovated to create more interactive student assignments.
New end-of-chapter lists of terms, with key terms as flash cards on the companion website.
An updated instructor's guide with test bank.
Table of Contents
Preface, Acknowledgements, Chapter One: A Brief Introduction to the Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness, Chapter Two: The Development of Scientific Medicine, Chapter Three: Social Epidemiology, Chapter Four: Society, Disease, and Illness, Chapter Five: Social Stress, Chapter Six: Health Behavior, Chapter Seven: Experiencing Illness and Disability, Chapter Eight: Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, Chapter Nine: Medical Education and the Socialization of Physicians, Chapter Ten: Nurses, Advanced Practice Providers, and Allied Health Workers, Chapter Eleven: Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Chapter Twelve: The Physician-Patient Background and Models, Chapter Thirteen: Professional and Ethical Obligations of Physicians in the Physician-Patient Relationship, Chapter Fourteen: The Health Care System of the United States, Chapter Fifteen: Health Care Delivery, Chapter Sixteen: The Social Implications of Advanced Health Care Technology, Chapter Seventeen: Comparative Health Care Systems, List of Images, List of Figures, Name Index, Subject Index
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