New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

An authoritative, topical, and comprehensive reference to the key concepts and most important traditional and contemporary issues in medical sociology.
* Contains 35 chapters by recognized experts in the field, both established and rising young scholars
* Covers standard topics in the field as well as new and engaging issues such as bioterrorism, bioethics, and infectious disease
* Chapters are thematically arranged to cover the major issues of the sub-discipline
* Global range of contributors and an international perspective

List of contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Part I: Introduction

Part II: Health and Social Inequalities

Part III: Health and Social Relationships

Part IV: Health and Disease

Part V: Health Care Delivery

Part VI: New Developments

About the author

William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Social Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA). He is President of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association and a current member of the Editorial Board of the American Sociological Review. His recent books include Social Causes of Health and Disease (2007), Medical Sociology, 11th edition (2010), and the co-authored Health and Globalization (2010).

Product details

• Authors: William C. (University of Alabama Cockerham
• Assisted by: William C Cockerham (Editor), William C. Cockerham (Editor), Cockerham William C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2009
• EAN: 9781405188685
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-8868-5
• No. of pages: 614
• Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology; Blackwell Companions to Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Soziologie, Medizinsoziologie, Sociology, Sociology of Health & Illness, Soziologie d. Gesundheit u. Krankheit