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
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Preface
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 162
PART III SEEKING HEALTH CARE
8 The Sick Role
9 Doctor-Patient Interaction
PART 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
