Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition

ISBN 10: 0826517218 / ISBN 13: 9780826517210

Edité par Vanderbilt University Press, 2010

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Synopsis :

Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by many outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this volume has new chapters on topics that include:

- social networks, neighborhoods, and social capital
- disability
- dying and "the right to die"
- health disparities
- the growing influence of the pharmaceutical industry
- the Internet
- evidence-based medicine and quality of care
- health social movements
- genetics
- religion, spirituality, and health

À propos de l'auteur: Chloe E. Bird is Senior Sociologist at the RAND Corporation.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition
Éditeur : Vanderbilt University Press
Date d'édition : 2010
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Very Good