Main description:

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

Contents:

CHAPTER ONE

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, HEALING, AND ILLNESS

CHAPTER TWO

THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE

CHAPTER THREE

SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

CHAPTER FOUR

SOCIETY, DISEASE, AND ILLNESS

CHAPTER FIVE

SOCIAL STRESS

CHAPTER SIX

HEALTH BEHAVIOR

CHAPTER SEVEN

EXPERIENCING ILLNESS AND DISABILITY

CHAPTER EIGHT

PHYSICIANS AND THE PROFESSION OF MEDICINE

CHAPTER NINE

MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE SOCIALIZATION OF PHYSICIANS

CHAPTER TEN

NURSES, ADVANCE PRACTICE PROVIDERS, AND ALLIED HEALTH WORKERS

CHAPTER ELEVEN

COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

CHAPTER TWELVE

THE PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP: BACKGROUND AND MODELS

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL OBLIGATIONS OF PHYSICIANS IN THE PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF ADVANCED HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

COMPARATIVE HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS