The Blackwell companion to medical sociology / edited by William C. Cockerham.
Material type: TextSeries: Blackwell companions to sociologyPublisher: Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 2001Description: xiii, 528 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0631217037
- 9780631217039
- 1405122668
- 9781405122665
- 306.461 21
- RA418 .B5736 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory -- 2. Health and Culture -- 3. The Sociology of the Body -- 4. Health and Social Stratification -- 5. From Women's Health to a Gender Analysis of Health -- 6. Work Stress and Health -- 7. Migration, Health, and Stress -- 8. Health Professions and Occupations -- 9. The Convergence and Divergence of Modern Health Care Systems -- 10. The American Health Care System: Entering the Twenty-first Century with High Risk, Major Challenges, and Great Opportunities -- 11. The Evolution of Health Care in Canada: Toward Community or Corporate Control? -- 12. Medical Sociology in Mexico -- 13. Social Science and Health in Brazil -- 14. Medical Sociology in Great Britain -- 15. The French Paradoxes -- 16. Medical Sociology in Germany -- 17. Society, Health, and Health Care in Sweden -- 18. The Russian Health Care Experiment: Transition of the Health Care System and Rethinking the Sociology of Medicine -- 19. In and Out of Communism: The Macrosocial Context of Health in Poland -- 20. Transformation of the Health Care System in the Czech Republic - A Sociological Perspective -- 21. Health and Health Care in South Africa Against an African Background -- 22. Health, Health Care, and Medical Education in the Arab World -- 23. Health and Health Care in Israel -- 24. Medicine and Health Care in Australia -- 25. Health, Illness, and Health Policy in Japan -- 26. The Great Reversal: Transformation of Health Care in the People's Republic of China -- Index.
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