The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness

Gregory L. Weiss earned his PhD from Purdue University and is now Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Roanoke College. During his career, he has been an honored teacher (winning numerous college, statewide, regional (SSS), and national (ASA’s Section on Teaching and Learning)) awards, a dedicated researcher and writer (author of Grass Roots Medicine and co-author of Experiencing Social Research and the ASA publication on Creating an Effective Sociology Assessment Program as well as dozens of scholarly articles), and active in the community in a variety of health- and animal-related organizations. Denise A. Copelton, PhD, is Associate Professor of Sociology at The State University of New York (SUNY), College at Brockport. One of the first social scientists to study celiac disease and gluten-free eating, her work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health & Illness, Advances in Gender Research, and Deviant Behavior, among others outlets. She is co-author (with Amy Guptill and Betsy Lucal) of Food & Society: Principles and Paradoxes, now in its second edition. She regularly teaches courses on introductory sociology, sociology of health and illness, sociology of families, and deviance. Her college-wide leadership was recognized in 2019 with the prestigious SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Faculty Service.

Preface, Acknowledgements, Chapter One: A Brief Introduction to the Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness, Chapter Two: The Development of Scientific Medicine, Chapter Three: Social Epidemiology, Chapter Four: Society, Disease, and Illness, Chapter Five: Social Stress, Chapter Six: Health Behavior, Chapter Seven: Experiencing Illness and Disability, Chapter Eight: Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, Chapter Nine: Medical Education and the Socialization of Physicians, Chapter Ten: Nurses, Advanced Practice Providers, and Allied Health Workers, Chapter Eleven: Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Chapter Twelve: The Physician-Patient Background and Models, Chapter Thirteen: Professional and Ethical Obligations of Physicians in the Physician-Patient Relationship, Chapter Fourteen: The Health Care System of the United States, Chapter Fifteen: Health Care Delivery, Chapter Sixteen: The Social Implications of Advanced Health Care Technology, Chapter Seventeen: Comparative Health Care Systems, List of Images, List of Figures, Name Index, Subject Index