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Taylor & Francis Ltd Medical Sociology 14Th Edition 2017 by William C. Cockerham
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 CONTENTSPreface 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 162PART III SEEKING HEALTH CARE 8 The Sick Role 9 Doctor-Patient InteractionPART 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