Overview
- This seminal reference work takes medical sociology to the next level by investigating the roles of social forces in health, illness, and healing
- The editors have chaired sections of ASA divisions (Medical Sociology, Mental Health, and Children and Youth) as well as the governance of ASA itself (former VP of ASA)
- Updates on the field since the last major Handbook of Medical Sociology was published in 2001
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Rethinking Connecting Sociology’s Role in Health, Illness, & Healing, From the Top Down
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Connecting Communities
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Connecting To Medicine: The Profession and Its Organizations
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Connecting To the People: The Public as Patient and Powerful Force
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing
Book Subtitle: A Blueprint for the 21st Century
Editors: Bernice A. Pescosolido, Jack K. Martin, Jane D. McLeod, Anne Rogers
Series Title: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7261-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7259-0Published: 21 December 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7260-6Published: 15 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7261-3Published: 17 December 2010
Series ISSN: 1389-6903
Series E-ISSN: 2542-839X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 571
Topics: Sociology, general, Public Health