The Wiley–Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society - WC Cockerham

The Wiley–Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society

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Buch | Hardcover
2696 Seiten
2014
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Verlag)
978-1-4443-3076-2 (ISBN)
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The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society represents the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and international reference work on all aspects of the social scientific study of health and illness.
Offering more than 700 entries across 20 sub-disciplines, this encyclopedia represents the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and international reference work on all aspects of the social scientific study of health and illness. * Represents the most authoritative resource covering concepts, theories, and substantive topics relating to the study of health in our globalized, 21st-century world * Brings together an experienced author team from across America, Asia, and Europe, who represent a variety of health-related disciplines * Accessibly structured A to Z entries also benefit from brief bibliographies and cross-references for enhanced clarity * Offers a definitive representation of each topic, combining different areas of the social scientific study of health in a way that reflects and promotes the interdisciplinary development of health research * Published simultaneously as a five-volume set and as an online reference work at www.healthandsocietyencyclopedia.com

William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His publications include Social Causes of Health and Disease, Second Edition (2013), Medical Sociology, 12th edition (2012), and The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Medicine (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist and part-time Professor at Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on research in medicine, law, and science and technology and is a former editor ofSociology of Health and Illness. Stella Quah is Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. She is author and editor of several books including Crisis Preparedness: Asia and the Global Governance of Epidemics (2007), Families in Asia: Home and Kin (2009), and International Encyclopedia of Public Health (co-edited with Harald Kristian Heggenhougen, 2008).

Editors vii Associate Editors viii Advisory Editors ix Contributors x Lexicon xxxi Timeline xli Introduction xlvi Volume I Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society A D 1 444 Volume II Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society E He 445 938 Volume III Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society He Me 939 1468 Volume IV Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society Me R 1469 2088 Volume V Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society S Z 2089 2512 Index 2513

Reihe/Serie SSEZ - Blackwell Encyclopedias in Social Sciences
Verlagsort Chicester
Sprache englisch
Maße 198 x 290 mm
Gewicht 5310 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lexikon / Chroniken
Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4443-3076-4 / 1444330764
ISBN-13 978-1-4443-3076-2 / 9781444330762
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