The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology
Jan 2010 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons
Ebook
624
Pages
About this ebook
An authoritative, topical, and comprehensive reference to the key concepts and most important traditional and contemporary issues in medical sociology.
- Contains 35 chapters by recognized experts in the field, both established and rising young scholars
- Covers standard topics in the field as well as new and engaging issues such as bioterrorism, bioethics, and infectious disease
- Chapters are thematically arranged to cover the major issues of the sub-discipline
- Global range of contributors and an international perspective
About the author
William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is past President of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association and former member of the Editorial Board of the American Sociological Review. His recent books include Medical Sociology, 13th edition (2016), Sociology of Mental Disorder, 9th edition (2014), and Social Causes of Health and Disease, 2nd edition (2013). He also is Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society (2014).
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