Medical Sociology - Softcover
Synopsis
The most thorough major academic textbook available, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author also integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. A much greater number of first person accounts and updated examples are added to the new fourteenth edition. Other updates include:
· Coverage of Zika, Ebola, MERS, and updates on other pandemics
· Expanded discussion of obesity as a disease
· Coverage of the widening gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor
· New information on the decline of life expectancy among American white women, especially those who live in rural counties
· New material on biomarkers, gene–environment interaction, and stress
· Analysis of the role of the hidden curriculum in medical schools
· Exiting the Affordable Care Act
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From the Publisher
This thorough revision of the best-selling medical sociology text provides a contemporary account of medical sociology, grounded in current research and sociological theory.
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The standard volume in the field--around the world--this best-selling introduction to medical sociology presents the most recent and relevant ideas, concepts, themes, issues, debates, and research findings at the cutting-edge of the field. It contains first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers; is based on a worldwide review of the literature; provides the most recent health statistics, data, and studies available; and identifies the most important trends and issues. Features lists of relevant Internet sites for further exploration of key issues. Covers topics such as Epidemiology; The Social Demography of Health; Social Stress; Health Behavior; Illness Behavior; Healing Options; The Sick Role; Doctor-Patient Interaction; Physicians; The Physician in a Changing Society; Nurses, Physician Assistants, and Midwives; Hospitals; Health Care Delivery and Social Policy in the United States; Health Care in Developed Countries; Health Care in Developing Former Socialist, Socialist, and Developing Countries; For anyone involved in Public Health, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 113866832X
- ISBN 13 9781138668324
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages436
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