Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care A Critical Approach

Name: Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care A Critical Approach
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ISBN: 9780495172031

ISBN-10: 0495172030

ISBN-13: 9780495172031

Edition: 4th 2007

Authors: Rose Weitz

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This highly readable and thoroughly up-to-date text offers a comprehensive overview of the field of sociology of health, including both micro and macro-level topics. Dr. Weitz examines the subject matter with a critical approach, which emphasizes the effects of power (such as how gender, ethnicity, and social class affect individual's experiences of health and illness), and how social forces create illness, affect our ideas about the nature of illness, and impact the work and position of health care workers. This text concentrates on health within the United States, but also looks at global health care issues.

Book details

List price: $142.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 3/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English




Social Factors and Illness



Introduction



The Social Sources of Illness



The Social Distribution of Illness in the United States



Illness in the Developing Nations



The Meaning And Experience of Illness



The Social Meanings of Illness



The Experience of Disability, Chronic Pain, and Chronic Illness



The Sociology of Mental Illness



Health Care Systems, Settings, and Technologies



The U.S. Health Care System and the Need for Reform



Alternative Health Care Systems



Health Care Settings and Technologies



Health Care Providers and Bioethics



The Profession of Medicine



Other Mainstream and Alternative Health Care Providers



Issues in Bioethics