Handbook of Medical Sociology 6th Edition by Chloe Bird, Peter Conrad, Allen Fremont, Stefan Timmermans 9780826517227 0826517226

Part I. Social Contexts and Health Disparities

1. Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities

2. Social Capital and Health

3. Why Education Is the Key to Socioeconomic Differentials in Health

4. Understanding Gender and Health: Old Patterns, New Trends, and Future Directions

5. Social Support, Sex, and Food: Social Networks and Health

6. Race, Social Contexts, and Health: Examining Geographic Spaces and Places

7. The Latino Health Paradox: Looking at the Intersection of Sociology and Health

8. A Life-Course Approach to the Study of Neighborhoods and Health

Part II. Health Trajectories and Experiences

9. The Social Construction of Illness: Medicalization and Contested Illness

10. The Patient’s Experience of Illness

11. The Internet and the Experience of Illness

12. The Sociology of Disability: Historical Foundations and Future Directions

13. Death, Dying, and the Right to Die

Part III. Health-Care Organization, Delivery, and Impact

14. Gender and Health Care

15. Institutional Change and the Organization of Health Care: The Dynamics of “Muddling Through”

16. Health-Care Professions, Markets, and Countervailing Powers

17. The Sociological Concomitants of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Medications

18. Evidence-Based Medicine: Sociological Explorations

19. The Sociology of Quality and Safety in Health Care: Studying a Movement and Moving Sociology

Part IV. Crosscutting Issues

20. Religion, Spirituality, Health, and Medicine: Sociological Intersections

21. Health, Security, and New Biological Threats: Reconfigurations of Expertise

22. Health Social Movements: History, Current Work, and Future Directions

23. The Application of Biomarker Data to the Study of Social Determinants of Health

24. Gene-Environment Interaction and Medical Sociology

25. Biotechnology and the Prolongation of Life: A Sociological Critique

Contributors

Index