The sociology of health illness and health care 6th edition

Lonnquist, Mary Baldwin College. Availability Not yet available. Overview Features Contents Order Overview. Description The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness is a comprehensive medical sociology textbook that covers traditional topics in medical sociology, while providing significant coverage of current issues related to health, healing, and illness.

Robert D. Emphasis on issues pertaining to race, class, and gender throughout text. Instructors can rely on students being exposed to important theories and the latest research on the influence of these key factors in the health setting and can delve further into particular interests related to these areas.

Includes theoretically meaningful and methodologically sound studies that contribute important knowledge to the understanding of health, healing, and illness. In addition to research conducted by medical sociologists, material from the other social sciences i.

Return to Book Page. Why do people get ill, and how should we care for them? Inside, you'll learn about the nature of illness and how the health care industry works.

Easy to understand and packed with study tools, this sociology textbook will not only get you ready to navigate the he Why do people get ill, and how should we care for them? Easy to understand and packed with study tools, this sociology textbook will not only get you ready to navigate the health care system, it will help you out in class as well.

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Meaning of health : migration experience and health seeking behaviour of West African women in Australia. In an increasingly multicultural Australia, the cohort of patients presenting for health care services are from cultural … Expand.

View 2 excerpts. The development of medical sociology in the post-Soviet society: the case of Lithuania. Central European journal of public health. Integrative medicine: Issues to consider in this emerging form of health care. Constructing understandings, renegotiating lives : women's experiences of arm morbidity after breast cancer.

Biomedical knowledge about arm morbidity is limited and often unclear, and there has been even less focus on the … Expand.

Highly Influenced. View 27 excerpts, cites background and methods. Corporatization and the Social Transformation of Doctoring. Getting rid of patients : contradictions in the socialization of physicians.

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Weiss, Gregory L. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. View all copies of this ISBN edition:. Synopsis About this title The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness is a comprehensive medical sociology textbook that covers traditional topics in medical sociology, while providing significant coverage of current issues related to health, healing, and illness.

From the Publisher : Updated to reflect important changes in health care in society and significant advancements in medical sociology, this student-friendly text continues to provide a readable, interesting, and in-depth overview of the field, offering solid coverage of traditional topics with a keen focus on the current issues and public policy debates affecting this dynamic area of study today.

From the Back Cover : Designed to reflect important changes in health care and significant advancements in medical sociology, this student-friendly text provides a readable, interesting, and in-depth overview of the field. Learn more about this copy. Other Popular Editions of the Same Title. Search for all books with this author and title.