Title: The sociology of health & illness : critical perspectives /
Authors: Conrad, Peter, 1945-
Publisher: Worth Publishers,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Social Medicine; Social medicine
Contents: Social nature of disease: Medical measures and the decline of mortality / John B. McKinlay and Sonja M. McKinlay -- Who gets sick? The unequal social distribution of disease / S. Leonard Syme and Lisa F. Berkman -- Excess mortality in Harlem / Colin McCord and Harold P. Freeman -- Gender differences in mortality : causes and variation in different societies / Ingrid Waldron -- A tale of two states / Victor R. Fuchs -- Population health in Utah and Nevada : an update on Victor Fuchs' Tale of two states / Victor G. Rodwin and Melanie J. Croce-Galis -- Our sickening social and physical environments : Popular epidemiology : community response to toxic waste-induced disease / Phil Brown -- Social relationships and health / James S. House, Karl R. Landis, and Debra Umberson -- Dying alone : the social production of urban isolation / Eric Klinenberg -- Health inequalities : relative or absolute material standards? / Richa rd Wilkinson -- The social and cultural meanins of illness : Anorexia nervosa in context / Joan Jacobs Brumberg -- AIDS and stigma / Gregory M. Herek -- The experience of illness : Self-help literature and the making of an illness identity : the case of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) / Kristin Barker -- The meaning of medications : another look at compliance / Peter Conrad -- The remission society / Arthur W. Frank.