Synopses & Reviews
Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by some of the 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
Review
"I recommend this book strongly as a breath of fresh air (seemingly from Mars) into our stuffy medical realm."
Howard Spiro, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Yale Medical School
Synopsis
The latest version of an important academic resource published about once a decade since 1963
About the Author
Chloe E. Bird is Senior Sociologist at the RAND Corporation. Peter Conrad is Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University. Allen M. Fremont is a physician, sociologist, and health services researcher based at RAND, with appointments at UCLA and the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center. Stefan Timmermans is Professor of Sociology at UCLA.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS:
Preface
Chloe E. Bird, Peter Conrad, Allen M. Fremont, and Stefan Timmermans
Social Contexts and Health Disparities
1. Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities
Bruce Link and Jo Phelan
2. Social Capital and Health
Ichiro Kawachi
3. Why Education Is the Key to Socioeconomic Differentials in Health
Catherine E. Ross and John Mirowsky
4. Understanding Gender and Health: Old Patterns, New Trends, and Future Directions
Patricia P. Rieker, Chloe E. Bird, and Martha E. Lang
5. Social Support, Sex, and Food: Social Networks and Health
Gina S. Lovasi, jimi adams, and Peter S. Bearman
6. Race, Social Contexts, and Health: Examining Geographic Spaces and Places
David T. Takeuchi, Emily Walton, and ManChui Leung
7. The Latino Health Paradox: Looking at the Intersection of Sociology and Health
Tamara Dubowitz, Lisa M. Bates, and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
8. A Life Course Approach to the Study of Neighborhoods and Health
Stephanie A. Robert, Kathleen A. Cagney, and Margaret M. Weden
Healthcare Organization, Delivery, and Impact
9. Gender and Health Care
Renee R. Anspach
10. The Dynamics of Institutional Disarray: "Muddling Through" Profound Change in U.S. Health Care
Peter Mendel and W. R. Scott
11. Health Care Professions, Markets, and Countervailing Powers
Donald W. Light
12. The Sociological Concomitants of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Medications
John Abraham
13. Evidence-Based Medicine: Sociological Explorations
Stefan Timmermans
14. The Sociology of Quality and Safety in Health Care: Studying a Movement and Moving Sociology
Teun Zuiderent-Jerak and Marc Berg
Health Trajectories and Experiences
15. The Sociology of Disability: Historical Foundations and Future Directions
Gary L. Albrecht
16. The Social Construction of Illness: Medicalization and Contested Illness
Kristen K. Barker
17. The Internet and the Experience of Illness
Peter Conrad and Cheryl Stults
18. The Patient's Experience of Illness
David A. Rier
19. Death, Dying, and the "Right to Die"
Clive Seale
Crosscutting Issues
20. Health Social Movements: History, Current Work, and Future Directions
Phil Brown, Crystal Adams, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Laura Senier, and Ruth Simpson
21. Religion, Spirituality, Health, and Medicine: Sociological Intersections
Wendy Cadge
22. Biotechnology and the Prolongation of Life: A Sociological Critique
Bryan S. Turner
23. Health, Security, and New Biological Threats: Reconfigurations of Expertise
Stephen J. Collier and Andy Lakoff
24. The Application of Biomarker Data to the Study of Social Determinants of Health
Regina A. Shih, Meenakshi M. Fernandes, and Chloe E. Bird
25. Gene Environment Interaction and Medical Sociology
Sara Shostak and Jeremy Freese