The Sociology of Health and IllnessPeter Conrad First published in 1981, The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives has become an essential resource for anyone interested in health and health care.Fully updated, the eighth edition includes an all new section on the uninsured as well as 10 new readings examining topics such as the failures of health care reform, new trends in medicalization, the growing power of the drug industry and the determinants of media attention to disease. Provocative and wide-ranging, The Sociology of Health and Illness continues to provide students with an integrated analysis of the most important issues regarding health care today. |
Contents
PART | 5 |
Who Gets Sick? The Unequal Social Distribution of Disease | 20 |
Causes and Variation in Different | 38 |
Our Sickening Social and Physical Environments | 67 |
Social Relationships and Health | 78 |
The Social Production of Urban Isolation | 87 |
Relative or Absolute Material Standards? | 102 |
The Social and Cultural Meanings of Illness | 108 |
The Vulnerability of Youth and the | 347 |
Medicine in Practice | 356 |
Social Death as a SelfFulfilling Prophecy | 370 |
The Language of Case Presentation | 386 |
Dilemmas of Medical Technology | 415 |
PART 3 | 449 |
The Medicalization of American Society | 468 |
Rationing Medical Care | 493 |
The Experience of Illness | 153 |
The Remission Society | 186 |
The End of the Golden Age of Doctoring | 213 |
Other Practitioners In and Out of Medicine | 249 |
The American Medical | 261 |
Medical Industries | 278 |
Financing Medical Care | 297 |
Paying for Health Care | 321 |
Money Markets and Managed Care | 329 |
The Uninsured | 337 |
The Trouble with Rationing | 499 |
Politicizing Health Care | 507 |
Comparative Health Polices | 534 |
Lessons from Canada | 553 |
Continuity and Change | 560 |
Prevention Movements and Social Change | 575 |
New Approaches to Social Movements | 592 |
Credits | 605 |
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