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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology
William C. Cockerham (Edited by)
9781119637585, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 10 January 2025
640 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.68 kg
THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO Medical Sociology The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is an authoritative overview of the most recent research, major theoretical approaches, and central issues and debates within the field. Bringing together contributions from an international team of leading scholars, this wide-ranging volume summarizes significant new developments and discusses a broad range of globally-relevant topics. The Companion’s twenty-eight chapters contain timely, theoretically-informed coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and emerging diseases, bioethics, healthcare delivery systems, health disparities associated with migration, social class, gender, and race. It also explores mental health, the family, religion, and many other real-world health concerns. The most up-to-date and comprehensive single-volume reference on the key concepts and contemporary issues in medical sociology, this book: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in medical sociology, health studies, and health care, as well as for academics, researchers, and practitioners wanting to keep pace with new developments in the field.
List of Contributors viii Preface xix Part I Introduction 1 1 Medical Sociology and Its Changing Subfields 3 2 Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory 22 3 Research Methods in Medical Sociology 45 4 Health and Culture in the Global Context 62 5 Bioethics: A Study in Sociology 82 Part II Theoretical Approaches 103 6 The Sociology of the Body 105 7 Biomedicalization Revisited 125 8 Health Lifestyles: Bringing Structure Back 150 9 The Life Course Perspective 171 10 Social Capital and Health 192 Part III Health and Social Inequality 215 11 Health and Social Class 217 12 Health and Gender 237 13 Health, Ethnicity, and Race 258 14 African American Health 279 15 Latinos and Equity in Health Care Access in the US 303 16 Social Policies and Health Inequalities 322 Part IV Health and Social Relationships 347 17 Health and the Family 349 18 Health and Religion 370 19 Migration and Health 389 20 Mental Health 410 Part V Health and Disease 431 21 Emerging Infectious Diseases 433 22 Beyond the Lost Self: Old Insights and New Horizons in the Sociology of Chronic Illness 447 Part VI Health Care Delivery 471 23 Health Professions and Occupations 473 24 Doctor–Patient Relationship 495 25 Complementary and Alternative Medicine 516 26 American Health Care System: Reforms for Access, Outcomes, and Cost Amid Legal, Legislative, and Political Disputes 537 27 The British Healthcare System 556 28 The Chinese Health Care System 572 Author Index 590 Subject Index 605
Terrence D. Hill, William C. Cockerham, Jane D. Mcleod, and Frederic W. Hafferty
William C. Cockerham and Graham Scambler
Joseph D. Wolfe, Shawn Bauldry, and Cindy L. Cain
Stella Quah
Kristina Orfali and Raymond de Vries
Sarah Nettleton
Adele E. Clarke, Melanie Jeske, Laura Mamo, and Janet K. Shim
William C. Cockerham
Kim M. Shuey and Andrea E. Willson
Lijun Song and Yvonne Chen
Jarron M. Saint Onge and Patrick M. Krueger
Ellen Annandale
Hannah Bradby and James Y. Nazroo
Christy L. Erving and Lacee A. Satcher
Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, Jaunathan Bilodeau, and Kaitlin Conway
Mieke Beth Thomeer and Kirsten Ostergren Clark
Ellen Idler
Elyas Bakhtiari
Teresa L. Scheid
Ron Barrett
Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski
Jason Adam Wasserman and Brian Philip Hinote
Hyeyoung Oh Nelson
Eeva Sointu
Bernice A. Pescosolido and Carol A. Boyer
Jonathan Gabe
Lei Jin and Chenyu Ye
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
