Book Details
Orange Code:28099
Paperback:473 pages
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Sections:
1. Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities2. Social Capital and Health3. Why Education Is the Key to Socioeconomic Differentials in Health4. Understanding Gender and Health5. Social Support, Sex, and Food6. Race, Social Contexts, and Health7. The Latino Health Paradox8. A Life-Course Approach to the Study of Neighborhoods and Health9. The Social Construction of Illness10. The Patient’s Experience of Illness11. The Internet and the Experience of Illness12. The Sociology of Disability13. Gender and Health Care14. Institutional Change and the Organization of Health Care15. Health-Care Professions, Markets, and Countervailing Powers16. Health, Security, and New Biological Threats17. Biotechnology and the Prolongation of Life
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Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by some of the outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this volume has new chapters on topics that include:
--social networks, neighborhoods, and social capital
--disability
--dying and "the right to die"
--health disparities
--the growing influence of the pharmaceutical industry
--the internet
--evidence-based medicine and quality of care
--health social movements
--genetics
--religion, spirituality, and health
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