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Names: Cockerham, William C., editor.
Title: The Wiley Blackwell companion to medical sociology / edited by William C. Cockerham.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2021] |
Series: Wiley Blackwell companions to sociology | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020043079 (print) | LCCN 2020043080 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119633754 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119637585 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119633785 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119633761 (epub) | ISBN 9781119633808 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Social medicine.
Classification: LCC RA418 .W445 2021 (print) | LCC RA418 (ebook) | DDC 362.1—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020043079
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020043080
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Table of Contents
1 Cover
4 List of Contributors
5 Preface
6 PART I INTRODUCTION1 Medical Sociology and Its Changing Subfields2 Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory3 Research Methods in Medical Sociology4 Health and Culture in the Global Context5 Bioethics: A Study in Sociology
7 PART II THEORETICAL APPROACHES6 The Sociology of the Body7 Biomedicalization Revisited8 Health Lifestyles: Bringing Structure Back9 The Life Course Perspective10 Social Capital and Health
8 PART III HEALTH AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY11 Health and Social Class12 Health and Gender13 Health, Ethnicity, and Race14 African American Health15 Latinos and Equity in Health Care Access in the US16 Social Policies and Health Inequalities
9 PART IV HEALTH AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS17 Health and the Family18 Health and Religion19 Migration and Health20 Mental Health
10 PART V HEALTH AND DISEASE21 Emerging Infectious Diseases22 Beyond the Lost Self: Old Insights and New Horizons in the Sociology of Chronic Illness
11 PART VI HEALTH CARE DELIVERY23 Health Professions and Occupations24 Doctor–Patient Relationship25 Complementary and Alternative Medicine26 American Health Care System: Reforms for Access, Outcomes, and Cost Amid Legal, Legislative, and Political Disputes27 The British Healthcare System28 The Chinese Health Care System
12 Author Index
13 Subject Index
14 End User License Agreement
List of Tables
1 Chapter 12Table 12.1 Life expectancy at Birth for Males and Females (Years), 2016.Table 12.2 The life expectancy gap (Years) 1969–2016.Table 12.3 Number of years (at birth) gained 1980, 1990 and 2000, by sex and region of Europe.Table 12.4 Life expectancy at birth (years) for males and female, selected Eastern Europe countries, 2000–2016.Table 12.5 Proportion of deaths from COVID-19 by sex (selected countries) as of 11 June 2020.Table 12.6 Age-standardized rates for deaths involving COVID-19 by sex and ethnic group, per 100,000 people in England and Wales occurring between January 3–March 5 2020.
2 Chapter 14Table 14.1 Articles focused on Black American Health Issues in the Top Four Sociology Generalist Journals in the U.S. 2000–2019.
3 Chapter 15Table 15.1 Selected Type of Health Insurance Coverage By Race and Latino Ethnicity Under 18 year, 20161.Table 15.2 Selected Type of Health Insurance Coverage By Race and Latino Ethnicity Aged 18–64 years, 20161.Table 15.3 Selected Type of Health Insurance Coverage By Race and Latino Ethnicity for 65 years and Over, 2016.
4 Chapter 28Table 28.1 Five major types of healthcare organizations in China; their numbers, the shares of outpatient and inpatient care they provided, and the percentage of for-profit organizations in each type in 2018.
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Major Subfields of Medical Sociology.
2 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 Causal graph of the relationships between adult children’s education(ACE), a vector of mediators (M), and mortality(MOR). X represents a vector of pretreatment confounders (e.g., respondent education), and U1 and U2 represent potential unobserved pretreatment and posttreatment confounders, respectively.
3 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 Health lifestyles paradigm.
4 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 Articles with “social capital” and “health” in their topics: Web of Science (1979–2019).
5 Chapter 14Figure 14.1 Journal of Health and Social Behavior (2000–2019) Articles Focused on Black Americans.
6 Chapter 16Figure 16.1 The main determinants of health.
7 Chapter 17Figure 17.1 Sample Conceptual Model for How the Structure of Social Ties Influences Health Throughout the Life Course.
8 Chapter 26Figure 26.1 Eras in the American health care system
Guide
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