Full Description
Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by some of the outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this volume has new chapters on topics that include: social networks, neighborhoods, and social capital; disability; dying and ""the right to die""; health disparities; the growing influence of the pharmaceutical industry; patient safety; evidence-based medicine and quality of care; health social movements; genetics; religion, spirituality, and health
Contents
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Chloe E. Bird, Peter Conrad, Allen M. Fremont, and Stefan Timmermans
Part I: Social Contexts and Health Disparities
1. Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities
Bruce Link and Jo Phelan
2. Social Capital and Health
Ichiro Kawachi
3. Why Education Is the Key to Socioeconomic Differentials in Health
Catherine E. Ross and John Mirowsky
4. Understanding Gender and Health: Old Patterns, New Trends, and Future Directions
Patricia P. Rieker, Chloe E. Bird, and Martha E. Lang
5. Social Support, Sex, and Food: Social Networks and Health
Gina S. Lovasi, jimi adams, and Peter S. Bearman
6. Race, Social Contexts, and Health: Examining Geographic Spaces and Places
David T. Takeuchi, Emily Walton, and ManChui Leung
7. The Latino Health Paradox: Looking at the Intersection of Sociology and Health
Tamara Dubowitz, Lisa M. Bates, and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
8. A Life-Course Approach to the Study of Neighborhoods and Health
Stephanie A. Robert, Kathleen A. Cagney, and Margaret M. Weden
Part II: Health Trajectories and Experiences
9. The Social Construction of Illness: Medicalization and Contested Illness
Kristin K. Barker
10. The Patient's Experience of Illness
David A. Rier
11. The Internet and the Experience of Illness
Peter Conrad and Cheryl Stults
12. The Sociology of Disability: Historical Foundations and Future Directions
Gary L. Albrecht
13. Death, Dying, and the Right to Die
Clive Seale
Part III: Health-Care Organization, Delivery, and Impact
14. Gender and Health Care
Renee R. Anspach
15. Institutional Change and the Organization of Health Care: The Dynamics of "Muddling Through"
Peter Mendel and W. Richard Scott
16. Health-Care Professions, Markets, and Countervailing Powers
Donald W. Light
17. The Sociological Concomitants of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Medications
John Abraham
18. Evidence-Based Medicine: Sociological Explorations
Stefan Timmermans
19. The Sociology of Quality and Safety in Health Care: Studying a Movement and Moving Sociology
Teun Zuiderent-Jerak and Marc Berg
Part IV: Crosscutting Issues
20. Religion, Spirituality, Health, and Medicine: Sociological Intersections
Wendy Cadge and Brian Fair
21. Health, Security, and New Biological Threats: Reconfigurations of Expertise
Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff
22. Health Social Movements: History, Current Work, and Future Directions
Phil Brown, Crystal Adams, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Laura Senier, and Ruth Simpson
23. The Application of Biomarker Data to the Study of Social Determinants of Health
Regina A. Shih, Meenakshi M. Fernandes, and Chloe E. Bird
24. Gene-Environment Interaction and Medical Sociology
Sara Shostak and Jeremy Freese
25. Biotechnology and the Prolongation of Life: A Sociological Critique
Bryan S. Turner
Contributors
Index
