The Blackwell companion to medical sociology
By: edited by William C. Cockerham.
Contributors: Cockerham, William C.
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Series: Blackwell companions to sociology
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, Mass., USA; Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
Subjects: Social medicine -- Miscellanea.; Social medicine -- Miscellanea.
Genres: Miscellanea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medical sociology and sociological theory; title: Health and culture; title: The sociology of the body; title: Health and social stratification; title: From women's health to a gender analysis of health; title: Work stress and health; title: Migration, health, and stress; title: Health professions and occupations; title: The convergence and divergence of modern health care systems; title: The American health care system: entering the twenty-first century with high risk, major challenges, and great opportunities; title: The evolution of health care in Canada: toward community or corporate control?; title: Medical sociology in Mexico; title: Social science and health in Brazil; title: Medical sociology in Great Britain; title: The French paradoxes; title: Medical sociology in Germany; title: Society, health, and health care in Sweden; title: The Russian health care experiment: transition of the health care system and rethinking the sociology of medicine; title: In and out of communism: the Macrosocial context of health in Poland; title: Transformation of the health care system in the Czech Republic: a sociological perspective; title: Health and health care in South Africa against an African background; title: Health, health care, and medical education in the Arab world; title: Health and health care in Israel; title: Medicine and health care in Australia; title: Health, illness, and health policy in Japan; title: The great reversal: transformation of health care in the People's Republic of China.