Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing

Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing
Author: Bernice A. Pescosolido
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2010-12-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1441972617

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.

The Sociology of Health and Healing

The Sociology of Health and Healing
Author: Margaret Stacey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1134897936

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology

The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology
Author: Benjamin Koen
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2011-04-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0199756260

This volume establishes the discipline of medical ethnomusicology and expresses its broad potential. It also is an expression of a wider paradigm shift of innovative thinking and collaboration that fully embraces both the health sciences and the healing arts.

The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care

The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care
Author: Rose Weitz
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2001
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Traditionally, medical sociology texts have been written from a medical perspective, focusing primarily on health issues as they have been defined by doctors, and often reading much like health education textbooks. Weitz, instead, adopts a critical perspective, sometimes challenging medical perspectives, sometimes raising broader issues beyond those of interest to the medical world. This perspective, which is more thoroughly sociological, is now more common among instructors than the older medical perspective.

The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness

The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness
Author: David Pilgrim
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2011
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1847873820

This title integrates the conceptual, empirical and evidence-based threads of mental health as an area of study, research and practice. It approaches mental health from two perspectives - firstly as a positive state of well-being and secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context.

The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness

The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness
Author: Gregory L. Weiss
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2017-02-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317236432

With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook has been widely acclaimed by teachers as the most accessible of any available. It introduces and integrates recent research in medical sociology and emphasizes the importance of race, class, gender throughout. This new edition leads students through the complexities of the evolving Affordable Care Act. It significantly expands coverage of medical technology, end-of-life issues, and alternative and complementary health care—topics students typically debate in the classroom. Many new textboxes and enhancements in pedagogy grace this new edition, which is essential in the fast-changing area of health care. New to this Edition *More textboxes relating the social aspects of medicine to students' lives *Expanded coverage leading students through the complex impacts of the ACA and health care reform *Expanded coverage of medical technology, end-of-life issues, and alternative and complementary health care *'Health and the Internet' sections updated and renovated toward student assignments *New, end of chapter lists of terms *Updated test bank

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology
Author: Lenore Manderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317743784

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia and encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the ethnographic richness and theoretical contributions of research on the clinic and the field, bioscience and medical research, infectious and non-communicable diseases, biomedicine, complementary and alternative modalities, structural violence and vulnerability, gender and ageing, reproduction and sexuality. As a way of illustrating the themes, a rich variety of case studies are included, presented by over 60 authors from around the world, reflecting the diverse cultural contexts in which people experience health, illness, and healing. Each chapter and its case studies are introduced by a photograph, reflecting medical and visual anthropological responses to inequality and vulnerability. An indispensible reference in this fastest growing area of anthropological study, The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology is a unique and innovative contribution to the field.

Sociology of Health and Medicine

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

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.

Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine

Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine
Author: Alan Petersen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 589
Release: 2023-11-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839104759

This timely Handbook provides an essential guide to the major topics, perspectives, and scholars in the sociology of health and medicine. Contributors prove the immense value of a sociological understanding of central health and medical concerns, including public health, the COVID-19 pandemic, and new medical technologies.

The Sociology of Health and Illness

The Sociology of Health and Illness
Author: Peter Conrad
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 865
Release: 2023-06-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1071850792

This anthology for Medical Sociology courses brings together a collection of readings from the scholarly literature on health, medicine, and health care. covering some of the most timely health issues of our day,