• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0357045076
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0357045077
• Author: Rose Weitz

Completely up to date and featuring a friendly style, THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH, 8th Edition delivers a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview that will challenge you to think creatively and analytically about health and health care. You’ll gain an understanding of how social forces affect who gets ill, how we think about illness, how we get our health care, and what it is like to work in the health care field. You will also have the chance to explore the ethical dilemmas that underlie modern health care as well as the politics behind those dilemmas. Although the text focuses on health within the United States, it also examines how health, illness, and health care differ around the world.

PART I. SOCIAL FACTORS AND ILLNESSChapter 1. The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care

Chapter 2. The Social Sources of Modern Illness

Chapter 3. The Social Distribution of Illness in the United States

Chapter 4. Illness and Death in the less Developed Nations

PART II. THE MEANING AND EXPERIENCE OF ILLNESS

Chapter 5. The Social Meanings of Illness

Chapter 6. The Experience of Disability, Chronic Pain, and Chronic Illness

Chapter 7. The Sociology of Mental Illness

PART III. HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS, SETTINGS, AND TECHNOLOGIES

Chapter 8. Health Care in the United States

Chapter 9. Health Care Around the Globe

Chapter 10. Health Care Settings and Technologies

PART IV. HEALTH CARE, HEALTH RESEARCH, AND BIOETHICS

Chapter 11. The Profession of Medicine

Chapter 12. Other Mainstream and Alternative Health Care Providers

Chapter 13. Issues in Bioethics

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