Medical Sociology

William C. Cockerham received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. He holds secondary appointments in medicine and public health and is recipient of the Frederick W. Connor Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the History of Ideas and the Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Award for Scholarly Distinction. He is past President of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association and formerly was on the Editorial Board of the American Sociological Review. Currently, he is on the Editorial Boards of Social Currents and Society and Mental Health. Dr. Cockerham has published numerous peer-reviewed papers in academic journals and is author or editor of 18 books. His most recent books from Routledge include Sociology of Mental Disorder 10E (2017).

CONTENTS

Preface

PART I INTRODUCTION

1 Medical Sociology

2 Epidemiology

3 The Social Demography of Health: Social Class

4 The Social Demography of Health: Gender, Age, and Race

PART II HEALTH AND ILLNESS

5 Social Stress and Health

6 Health Behavior and Lifestyles

7 Illness Behavior 162

PART III SEEKING HEALTH CARE

8 The Sick Role

9 Doctor-Patient Interaction

PART IV PROVIDING HEALTH CARE

10 Physicians

11 The Physician in a Changing Society

12 Nurses, Physician Assistants, Pharmacists, and Midwives

13 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

PART V HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS

14 Hospitals

15 Health Care Reform and Health Policy in the United States

16 Global Health Care