TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cockerham,William C.
TI  - The Blackwell companion to medical sociology
T2  - Blackwell companions to sociology
SN  - 0631217037
AV  - RA418 .B5736 2001
U1  - 306.461 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Oxford, UK, Malden, Mass., USA
PB  - Blackwell
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Miscellanea
N1  - 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
ER  -