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Title: Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing
Author : Bernice A. Pescosolido, Jack K. Martin, Jane D. McLeod & Anne Rogers
Release Date : January 17, 2010
Genre: Sociology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,Professional & Technical,Medical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 5640 KB

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The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry. The editors provide a blueprint for guiding research and teaching agendas for the first quarter of the 21st century.

In a series of essays, this volume offers a systematic view of the critical questions that face our understanding of the role of social forces in health, illness and healing. It also provides an overall theoretical framework and asks medical sociologists to consider the implications of taking on new directions and approaches. Such issues may include the importance of multiple levels of influences, the utility of dynamic, life course approaches, the role of culture, the impact of social networks, the importance of fundamental causes approaches, and the influences of state structures and policy making.