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Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Series Editor: Howard B. Kaplan, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. HANDBOOK OF COMMUNITY MOVEMENTS AND LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. Edited by Ram A. Cnaan (University of Pennsylvania) and Carl Milofsky (Bucknell University)
Healing, and Illness With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook has been widely acclaimed by teachers as the most accessible of any available.
29 cze 2023 · Written in an engaging and accessible style, with multiple student-friendly features, it integrates recent research in medical sociology and public health to introduce students to a wide range of issues affecting health, healing, and health care today.
19 gru 2022 · Health, Illness, and Society, Updated Second Edition provides a comprehensive yet concise introduction to medical sociology. In his accessible style, Steven Barkan covers health and illness...
Sociologists study health and illness not only because they are intrinsically interesting, and go to issues at the centre of human existence – pain, suffering and death – but also because they help us to understand how society works.
The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry.
This is an open access textbook on the psychology of health and illness designed for the University of the People (UoP) but available to everyone. It consists of 8 chapters covering key theoretical perspectives; health behaviour and beliefs;
