The Blackwell Companion To Medical Sociology (eBook)
597 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-99832-8 (ISBN)
* Covers both substantive areas in medical sociology and regionalperspectives located in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East,Asia, and Africa
* First comparative perspective to provide a comprehensive viewof the field
William C. Cockerham is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Alabama, with dual appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health. He is the author of The Global Society (1994), The Aging Society (1996), Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe (1999), Sociology of Mental Disorder (fifth edition, 1999), and Medical Sociology (eighth edition, 2001), and co-editor of Dictionary of Medical Sociology (1997) and Readings in Medical Sociology (second edition, 2001).
List of Contributors viii
Preface xi
Part I Substantive Topics
1 Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory 3
William C. Cockerham
2 Health and Culture 23
Stella Quah
3 The Sociology of the Body 43
Sarah Nettleton
4 Health and Social Stratification 64
Eero Lahelma
5 From Women's Health to a Gender Analysis of Health 94
Sara Arber and Hilary Thomas
6 Work Stress and Health 114
Johannes Siegrist
7 Migration, Health, and Stress 126
Judith T. Shuval
8 Health Professions and Occupations 144
Elianne Riska
9 The Convergence and Divergence of Modern Health Care Systems 159
Fred Stevens
Part II Regional Perspectives
The Americas
10 The American Health Care System: Entering the Twenty-First Century with High Risk, Major Challenges, and Great Opportunities 180
Bernice A. Pescosolido and Carol A. Boyer
11 The Evolution of Health Care in Canada: Toward Community or Corporate Control? 199
Harley D. Dickinson and B. Singh Bolaria
12 Medical Sociology in Mexico 214
Roberto Castro
13 Social Science and Health in Brazil 233
Everardo Duarte Nuñes
Western Europe
14 Medical Sociology in Great Britain 246
Ellen Annandale and David Field
15 The French Paradoxes 263
Kristina Orfali
16 Medical Sociology in Germany 287
Olaf von dem Knesebeck and Johannes Siegrist
17 Society, Health, and Health Care in Sweden 298
Örjan Hemström
Russia and Eastern Europe
18 The Russian Health Care Experiment: Transition of the Health Care System and Rethinking of Sociology of Medicine 320
Elena Dmitrieva
19 In and Out of Communism: The Macrosocial Context of Health in Poland 334
Nina Ostrowska
20 Transformation of the Health Care System in the Czech Republic - A Sociological Perspective 347
Hana Janecková
Africa
21 Health and Health Care in South Africa Against an African Background 365
H. C. J. van Rensburg and Charles Ngwena
22 Health, Health Care, and Medical Education in the Arab World 393
Eugene Gallagher
23 Health and Health Care in Israel 410
Ofra Anson
Asia and the Pacific Region
24 Medicine and Health Care in Australia 429
Deborah Lupton
25 Health, Illness, and Health Policy in Japan 441
Masahira Anesaki and Tsunetsugu Munakata
26 The Great Reversal: Transformation of Health Care in the People's Republic of China 456
Meei-shia Chen
Index 483
"This volume fills a need for a textbook in medical sociologywhich is comprehensive, international, and up-to-date. Adistinguished list of contributors covers not only theory andsubstantive topics but also the development of the disciplinethroughout the world. This will remain a definitive text forstudents and practitioners."
Mildred Blaxter, University of East Anglia
"...This volume is recommended as an authoritativeresource in medical sociology for upper division undergraduatesthrough professionals."
Choice
"This is certainly a book that should be in any reputablehealth studies library. Its bibliographies are an invaluableresource."
Social Science & Medicine
"This book is an important compendium that reflects theglobal growth of medical sociology. As a collection byinternational scholars writing about medical sociology and healthcare in their own countries, this book is destined to become abenchmark resource."
Peter Conrad, Brandeis University
"This text is a useful and valuable resource for students andresearchers working in the field of medical sociology."Sociology
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.5.2008 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie | |
Schlagworte | Econometrics • Economics • Krankenpflege • nursing • Nursing Special Topics • Ökonometrie • Sociology • Sociology of Health & Illness • Soziologie • Soziologie d. Gesundheit u. Krankheit • Spezialthemen Krankenpflege • Volkswirtschaftslehre |
ISBN-10 | 0-470-99832-6 / 0470998326 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-99832-8 / 9780470998328 |
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