The sociology of health, healing, and illness /
Weiss, Gregory L.
Lonnquist, Lynne E.
Boston : Prentice Hall,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Pt.1. Perspectives on the Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness -- Ch.1. A Brief Introduction to the Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness -- Ch.2. The Development  of Scientific Medicine -- Pt.2. The Influences of the Social Environment on Health and Illness -- Ch.3. Social Epidemiology -- Ch.4. Society, Disease, and Illness -- Ch.5. Social Stress -- Pt.3. Health and Illness behavior -- Ch.6. Health Behavior -- Ch.7. Experiencing Illness and Disability -- Pt.4. Health Care Practitioners of Medicine -- Ch.9. Medical Education and the Socialization of Physicians -- Ch.10. Nurses, Mid-level Health Care Practitioners, and Allied Health Workers -- Ch.11. Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- Ch.12. The Physician-patient Relationship: Background and Models -- Ch.13. Professional and Ethical Obligations of Physicians in the Physician-patient Relationship -- Pt.5. The Health Care System -- Ch.14. The Health Care System of the United States -- Ch.15. Health Care Delivery -- Ch.16. The Social Implications of Advanced Health Care Technology -- Ch.17. Comparative Health Care Systems
Social medicine
Medical ethics
Medical care