Full Description
Extremely reader friendly and completely up to date, THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH, International Edition delivers a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview and challenges readers to question previously held beliefs about health and illness. Dr. Weitz's thorough discussions of health and medicine emphasize the effects of power and how social forces create illness, affect our ideas about the meaning of illness and disability, structure health care institutions, and impact the work and social position of health care workers. While the text focuses on health within the United States, it also examines global health care issues.
Contents
PART Iand Health Care. 2. The Social Sources of Modern Illness. 3. The Social Distribution of Illness in the United States. 4. Illness and Death in Social Meanings of Illness. 6. The Experience of Disability, Chronic Pain, and Chronic Illness. 7. The Sociology of Mental Illness. PART III: HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS, SETTINGS, AND TECHNOLOGIES. 8. Health Care in the United States. 9. Health Care around the Globe. 10. Health Care Settings and Technologies. PART IV: HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND BIOETHICS. 11. The Profession of Medicine. 12. Other Mainstream and Alternative Health Care Providers. 13. Issues in Bioethics. Glossary. References. Subject Index.
