The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness

11. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-03-241812-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 248 mm x 188 mm, Gewicht: 1200 g

With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook is widely acclaimed by instructors as the most comprehensive of any available. Written in an engaging and accessible style, with multiple student-friendly features, it integrates recent research in medical sociology and public health to introduce students to a wide range of issues affecting health, healing, and health care today.

This new edition links information on COVID-19 into each chapter, providing students with a solid understanding of the social history of medicine; social epidemiology; social stress; health and illness behavior; the profession of medicine; nurses and allied health workers; complementary and alternative medicine; the physician-patient relationship; medical ethics; and the financing and organization of medical care.

Important changes and enhancements in the eleventh edition include:

- Inclusion of material on COVID-19 in the main text of every chapter, with special sections at the end of each chapter exploring additional intersections of COVID-19 with chapter content.

- Expanded coverage of fundamental cause theory and the social determinants of health.

- New centralized discussions of how and why social disparities in race, class, gender, and sexual identity impact health outcomes in the United States.

- New “In the Field” boxed inserts on topics such as medical education and student debt, physicians’ use of medical jargon, and corporate greed.

- New “In Comparative Focus” boxed inserts on topics such as the 1918 influenza pandemic, infant and maternal mortality in Afghanistan, the patient care coordination process, drug prices, long-term care, and global health.

- A more in-depth look at both physician and nursing shortages.

- Expanded discussion of nurse burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic.

- Curricular and pedagogical changes in medical schools.

- Discussion of continued changes in the financing of the US health care system.

- A more in-depth look at quality concerns in nursing homes.

- Increased attention to the health care systems in Norway, Germany, Cuba, and Mexico.

- An updated instructor’s guide with test bank and PowerPoint slides.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Copelton, Denise

Weiss, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Krankenversicherung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Tables and Figures

1 A Brief Introduction to the Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness

2 The Development of Scientific Medicine

3 Social Epidemiology

4 Social Stress

5 Health Behavior

6 Experiencing Illness and Disability

7 Physicians and the Profession of Medicine

8 Medical Education and the Socialization of Physicians

9 Nurses, Advance Practice Providers, and Allied Health Workers

10 Complementary and Alternative Medicine

11 The Physician–Patient Relationship

12 Professional and Ethical Obligations of Physicians in the Physician–Patient Relationship

13 The United States Health Care System

14 Health Care Delivery

15 The Social Implications of Advanced Health Care Technology

16 Comparative Health Care Systems

Name Index

Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Denise A. Copelton, PhD, is Professor of Sociology and Department Chair at The State University of New York (SUNY) at Brockport. One of the first social scientists to study celiac disease and gluten-free eating, her work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health & Illness, Advances in Gender Research, and Deviant Behavior, among other outlets. She is co-author (with Amy Guptill and Betsy Lucal) of Food & Society: Principles and Paradoxes, now in its third edition. She regularly teaches courses on introductory sociology, sociology of health and illness, sociology of families, and aging and the life course. Her college-wide leadership was recognized in 2019 with the prestigious SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Faculty Service.

Gregory L. Weiss earned his PhD from Purdue University and is now Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Roanoke College. During his career, he has been an honored teacher (winning numerous college, statewide, regional [SSS], and national [ASA’s Section on Teaching and Learning] awards), a dedicated researcher and writer (author of Grass Roots Medicine and co-author of Experiencing Social Research and the ASA publication on Creating an Effective Sociology Assessment Program as well as dozens of scholarly articles), and active in the community in a variety of health-, environmental-, and animal-related organizations.