Medical sociology

Description

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 CONTENTSPreface PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Medical Sociology 2 Epidemiology 3 The Social Demography of Health: Social Class 4 The Social Demography of Health: Gender, Age, and Race PART II HEALTH AND ILLNESS 5 Social Stress and Health 6 Health Behavior and Lifestyles 7 Illness Behavior 162PART III SEEKING HEALTH CARE 8 The Sick Role 9 Doctor-Patient InteractionPART IV PROVIDING HEALTH CARE 10 Physicians 11 The Physician in a Changing Society 12 Nurses, Physician Assistants, Pharmacists, and Midwives 13 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) PART V HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS 14 Hospitals 15 Health Care Reform and Health Policy in the United States 16 Global Health Care