Overview
The most comprehensive major academic textbook available on its topic, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. Since its inception, this book's principal goal has been to introduce students to the field of medical sociology and serve as a reference for faculty by presenting the most current ideas, issues, concepts, themes, theories, and research findings in the field. This new edition is heavily revised with updated data and important new additions. New to this edition: A contemporary account of medical sociology’s subfields (Chapter 1) New chapter on COVID-19 (Chapter 3) Update on the widening gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor (Chapter 4) New chapter on gender and health, including the convergence of life expectancy between men and women and its reversal during the COVID-19 pandemic (Chapter 5) Updated chapter on aging and expanded discussion of health and race (Chapter 6) New developments in doctor-patient interaction, including telemedicine (Chapter 10) The survival of the Affordable Care Act (Chapter 16)
Full Product Details
Author: William C. Cockerham (University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: 15th edition
Weight: 0.900kg
ISBN: 9781032067933
ISBN 10: 1032067934
Pages: 466
Publication Date: 30 September 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Research Scholar of Sociology at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. He held secondary appointments in medicine and public health at UAB and is recipient of several awards for scholarly distinction. He is past President of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association and formerly was on the editorial boards of several journals, including the American Sociological Review and Society and Mental Health. Currently, he is deputy editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and is author or editor of 20 books. Recent books are the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology ( 2021) and Social Causes of Health and Disease, 3rd ed. (2021). His newest books with Routledge are Sociological Theories of Health and Illness (2021), Sociology of Mental Disorder, 11th ed. (2021), and The COVID-19 Reader: What the Science Says About the Social (2021).
