Sociology of Health Healing & Illness

For Medical Sociology, Sociology of Health, and Sociology of Health and Illness courses taught at the junior/senior level in sociology and allied health departments.This student-friendly text provides an in-depth overview of the field and offers solid coverage of traditional topics with a keen focus on the current issues and public policy debates affecting the medical field.What current topics do you cover in your course? NEW-Thoroughly updated patterns, trends, and statistics - Presents students with new material that reflects important changes in health care in society and important advancements in medical sociology.NEW-Extended analysis of a wide range of topics-e.g., the SARS epidemic; the sociology of mental health; the multidimensional consideration of stressors; the increasing problem of obesity; and contributions of animals to human health.Broad coverage of traditional subject matter, policy questions, and issues with new perspectives and research findings.Analysis of a wide range of current issues-e.g., health issues of children and adolescents, the effects of the Human Genome Project, medical errors, increasing political activism among nurses, and health care systems in developing countries. Do you use other countries to make comparisons about medical issues in the United States?Global coverage - Provides students with examples from developing and industrialized countries.In Comparative Focus features - Supplies students with an informative comparison between the United States and one or more other countries on a selected topic.