Medical Sociology

By William C. Cockerham

Book Overview

The most comprehensive major academic textbook available on its topic, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. Since its inception, this book's principal goal has been to introduce students to the field of medical sociology and serve as a reference for faculty by presenting the most current ideas, issues, concepts, themes, theories, and research findings in the field. This new edition is heavily revised with updated data and important new additions.

New to this edition:

A contemporary account of medical sociology's subfields (Chapter 1)

New chapter on COVID-19 (Chapter 3)

Update on the widening gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor (Chapter 4)

New chapter on gender and health, including the convergence of life expectancy between men and women and its reversal during the COVID-19 pandemic (Chapter 5)

Updated chapter on aging and expanded discussion of health and race (Chapter 6)

New developments in doctor-patient interaction, including telemedicine (Chapter 10)

The survival of the Affordable Care Act (Chapter 16)

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032067950
• ISBN13: 9781032067957
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 466 Pages

Customer Reviews

Medical Sociology

This text book is very easy to read and get right to the point. It is a very intersting read.

As Good as they say

The book itself is everything it promises to be. One caveat, the publicity mentions 35 chapters, there are still only 24. Nonetheless, it creates enthusiasm for the field.

Medical Sociology

One of the most important books in the field. The book is very well written, with some pictures and graphics, meking the reading not difficult. I wiedly recomend this text as a guide in all type of curses in university concerning those problems related with the medecine exercise in occidental societies.