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The Sociology of Health and Illness
Critical Perspectives
Tenth Edition
Edited by:
- Peter Conrad - Brandeis University, USA
- Valerie Leiter - Simmons College, USA
July 2018 | 800 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Now with SAGE Publishing!
The Tenth Edition of The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives addresses the crucial issues in this field with over 45 readings (1/3 of which are new to this edition) from the scholarly literature on health and medicine, thus providing students with the most balanced and comprehensive analysis of health care today. This best-selling anthology includes both micro-level and structural perspectives, frameworks for understanding these critical issues, and a breadth of material that allows instructors to mix and match materials to meet their course needs.
New to this Edition
- 17 readings are new to this edition.
- All introductions by the editors have been updated to reflect new readings and the latest data.
- The sections on Financing Medical Care and Health Care Reform have been merged to reflect the current debate about health policy taking place largely within the context of financing.
- The section previously called Comparative Health Policies is now called Global Issues, with an expanded scope that includes health inequalities between countries, the globalization of ADHD, and the international migration of health care workers.
- New material on the dilemmas of medical technology provides both a conceptual framework for understanding the key issues as well as a case study about genetic counseling to help students apply those concepts directly.
- New readings on illness, medicine, and the internet offer increasingly relevant information on how individuals address health and illness in their increasingly technology-dominated lives.
- A new section on globalization helps students understand the impact of factors such as the international pharmaceutical industry, international migration, and the role of the internet.
PART I. THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF DISEASE AND THE MEANINGS OF ILLNESS
Chapter 1. The Social Nature of Disease
John B. McKinlay and Sonja M. McKinlay
Jo C. Phelan, Bruce G. Link and Parisa Tehranifar
Chapter 2. Who Gets Sick? The Unequal Social Distribution of Disease
S. Leonard Syme and Lisa F. Berkman
David R. Williams and Selina A. Mohammed
Rachel C. Snow
Paul E. Farmer et al.
John B. McKnight
Chapter 3. Our Sickening Social and Physical Environments
James S. House, Karl R. Landis and Debra Umberson
Phil Brown et al.
Eric Klinenberg
Chapter 4. The Social and Cultural Meanings of Illness
Abigail C. Saguy and Kjerstin Gruys
Alison Scott
Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Dan Carpenter and Marie E. Hojnacki
Chapter 5. The Experience of Illness
Kristin K. Barker
Peter Conrad
Rhonda Shaw
PART II. THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL CARE
Chapter 6. The Rise and Fall of the Dominance of Medicine
Peter Conrad and Joseph W. Schneider
Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz
John B. McKinlay and Lisa D. Marceau
Donald W. Light
Chapter 7. Other Providers In and Out of Medicine
Susan Reverby
Terri A. Winnick
Chapter 8. Pharmaceuticalization
Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter
Jonathan Gabe, Catherine M. Coveney and Simon J. Williams
Chapter 9. Financing Medical Care
Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach
Jill Quadagno
Alan B. Cohen
Chapter 10. Medicine in Practice
Elliot G. Mishler
Ming-Cheng Miriam Lo
Stefan Timmermans
Amanda M. Gengler
Chapter 11. Dilemmas of Medical Technology
Monica J. Casper and Daniel R. Morrison
Susan Markens
PART III. CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL DEBATES
Chapter 12. The Relevance of Risk
Deborah Lupton
Meta J. Kreiner and Linda M. Hunt
Chapter 13. The Medicalization of American Society
Irving Kenneth Zola
Peter Conrad
Claudia Malacrida and Tiffany Boulton
Theresa Morris
PART IV: EXPANDING HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Chapter 14. Illness, Medicine, and the Internet
Peter Conrad, Julia Bandini and Alexandria Vasquez
Deborah Lupton and Annemarie Jutel
Chapter 15. Prevention, Movements, and Social Change
John McKnight
Phil Brown et al.
Chapter 16. Global Issues
Jason Beckfield, Sigrun Olafsdottir and Elyas Bakhtiari
Peter Conrad and Meredith R. Bergey
Hannah Bradby
Sample Materials & Chapters
Reading 25. Paying for Health Care
Reading 40. Illness and the Internet: From Private to Public Experience