Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness

by Gregory L. Weiss

Author	: Gregory L. Weiss
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 465
Release	: 2015-08-13
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 1317344030

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A comprehensive presentation of the major topics in medical sociology. The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness, 8/e by Gregory L. Weiss and Lynne E. Lonnquist provides an in-depth overview of the field of medical sociology. The authors provide solid coverage of traditional topics while providing significant coverage of current issues related to health, healing, and illness. Readers will emerge with an understanding of the health care system in the United States as well as the changes that are taking place with the implementation of The Affordable Care Act.

Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing

by Bernice A. Pescosolido

Author	: Bernice A. Pescosolido
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages	: 563
Release	: 2010-12-17
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 1441972617

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The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry. The editors provide a blueprint for guiding research and teaching agendas for the first quarter of the 21st century. In a series of essays, this volume offers a systematic view of the critical questions that face our understanding of the role of social forces in health, illness and healing. It also provides an overall theoretical framework and asks medical sociologists to consider the implications of taking on new directions and approaches. Such issues may include the importance of multiple levels of influences, the utility of dynamic, life course approaches, the role of culture, the impact of social networks, the importance of fundamental causes approaches, and the influences of state structures and policy making.

Understanding the Sociology of Health

by Anne-Marie Barry

Author	: Anne-Marie Barry
Publisher	: SAGE
Total Pages	: 353
Release	: 2016-09-19
Genre	: Medical
ISBN	: 1473995116

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Understanding the Sociology of Health continues to offer an easy to read introduction to sociological theories essential to understanding the current health climate. Up-to-date with key policy and research, and including case studies and exercises to critically engage the reader, this book shows how sociology can answer complex questions about health and illness, such as why health inequalities exist. To better help with your studies this book contains: · a global perspective with international examples; · a new chapter on health technologies; · online access to videos of the author discussing key topics as well as recommended further readings; · a glossary, chapter summaries and reflective questions to help you engage with the subject. Though aimed primarily at students on health and social care courses and professions allied to medicine, this textbook provides valuable insights for anyone interested in the social aspects of health.

The Sociology of Health and Healing

by Margaret Stacey

Author	: Margaret Stacey
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 328
Release	: 2003-09-02
Genre	: Medical
ISBN	: 1134897936

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This text takes a step in pointing new directions for sociological and social-historical studies of health and health care. Throughout the book, the division of labour in health care, especially as it relates to social class and gender divisions, is taken as central.

Working Cures

by Sharla M. Fett

Author	: Sharla M. Fett
Publisher	: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages	: 310
Release	: 2002
Genre	: Medical
ISBN	: 9780807853788

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Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.

Sociology of Health and Medicine

by V. Sujatha

Author	: V. Sujatha
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2014
Genre	: Medical
ISBN	: 9780198099130

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Health and medicine rarely constitute object of enquiry in the social science literature in India. Given the fact that experience of disease and its detection are deeply embedded in social settings, foundational questions on the meaning and experience of health and on the role of medicine have to be raised. Drawing upon published social science research in the field, this book discusses many of these questions. It also brings medical pluralism into the heart of social theory of health and medicine.

Sociology for Health Professionals

by Lani Russell

Author	: Lani Russell
Publisher	: SAGE
Total Pages	: 358
Release	: 2013-11-28
Genre	: Medical
ISBN	: 1446292827

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Sociology is a key topic for all trainee health professionals, but many struggle to see what sociology has to offer. Based on years of experience teaching sociology to healthcare students, Lani Russell has written a truly introductory text which explains the main sociological concepts without jargon or becoming too advanced. Using carefully chosen examples, she shows how health issues are influenced by social phenomena such as class, race or sexuality and the relevance this has for practitioners. The book includes: -The main sociological concepts relevant to healthcare students -Examples linking sociological concepts and major health topics -Exercises to test students′ understanding -Glossaries of key terms and key theorists -Advice on further reading -A full companion website with teaching materials for lecturers and learning resources for students This is the ideal text to recommend to students who need an accessible introduction to the sociology of health and illness.

Health Psychology

by Elizabeth D. Whitaker

Author	: Elizabeth D. Whitaker
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 1237
Release	: 2016-12-05
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1317347897

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This reader looks at both the biological and cultural aspects of health and healing within a comparative framework. Health and Healing in Comparative Perspective provides both fascinating comparative ethnographic detail and a theoretical framework for organizing and interpreting information about health. While there are many health-related fields represented in this book, its core discipline is medical anthropology and its main focus is the comparative approach. Cross-cultural comparison gives anthropological analysis breadth while the evolutionary time scale gives it depth. These two features have always been fundamental to anthropology and continue to distinguish it among the social sciences. A third feature is the in-depth knowledge of culture produced by anthropological methods such as participant-observation, involving long-term presence in and research among a study population. For medical anthropology, medical sociology, public health, nursing courses.

An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness

by Dr Kevin White

Author	: Dr Kevin White
Publisher	: SAGE
Total Pages	: 209
Release	: 2002-03-26
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 1847877133

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The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that disease is socially produced and distributed. Becoming sick and unhealthy is not the result of individual misfortune or an accident of nature. It is a consequence of the social, political and economic organization of society. In developing this thesis, the author systematically introduces students to the major sociological explanations of the role and functions of medical explanations of disease. The book situates the student securely in the literature and provides a guide to the strengths and weaknesses of the major sociological approaches. It draws out the essential features of the major sociological contributions and elucidates how an appreciation of the dynamics of class, gender, ethnicity and the sociology of knowledge challenges medical power.