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Blending foundational concepts and sociological perspectives on mental health issues with newer studies and accounts in an accessible and authoritative survey of the field, the new edition of the Sociology of Mental Disorder remains an essential text and an invaluable resource for students and scholars.

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is an authoritative overview of the state of the art in health and medical sociology, authored and edited by an international team of leading scholars to provide essential reading for students and researchers. The book incorporates the theoretical foundations, core themes, major perspectives, and applied areas of medical sociology. It reflects the complexity of this vibrant field, outlining e...

This reader offers the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says for its spread and social implications. With carefully selected chapters for an introductory or graduate student readership by a distinguished medical sociology team, this reader is an essential teaching resource on COVID-19"--

This new edition provides vital updates and significantly expanded coverage. Importantly, this edition that has been updated to the Revised DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). Included is a new chapter on patienthood and sections on epigenetics, social class, race, gender, community care, and more topics"--

This new edition provides vital updates and significantly expanded coverage. Importantly, this edition that has been updated to the Revised DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). Included is a new chapter on patienthood and sections on epigenetics, social class, race, gender, community care, and more topics"--

This stimulating book has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. This extensively revised and updated third edition offers the most compelling case yet that stress, poverty, unhealthy lifestyles, and unpleasant living and work conditions can all be directly associated with illness. The book continues to build on the paradigm shift that has been emerging in twenty-...

This stimulating book has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. This extensively revised and updated third edition offers the most compelling case yet that stress, poverty, unhealthy lifestyles, and unpleasant living and work conditions can all be directly associated with illness. The book continues to build on the paradigm shift that has been emerging in twenty-...

A theoretical at its inception, the field of medical sociology has evolved to become one of the most theoretically active sociology fields. This is the first up to date-single author text to appear in many years. It is designed to be taught as a stand-alone text or assigned along with the author's bestselling Medical Sociology, 14th edition"--

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In this stimulating book, William Cockerham, a leading medical sociologist, assesses the evidence that social factors have direct causal effects on health and many diseases. He argues that stress, poverty, unhealthy lifestyles, and unpleasant living and work conditions can all be directly associated with illness.

For the first time, life expectancy is declining in an industrialized society. In this pioneering work, William C. Cockerham examines the social causes of the decline in life expectancy beginning in the 1960s including: *Russia *Poland *Hungary *Romania *Bulgaria *the Czech Republic *and East Germany. Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe argues that the roots of this change are mainly social rather than biomedical - the result...

Alphabetically arranged entries define and discuss hundreds of terms related to medical sociology.

Including chapters from 35 leading international experts on health-related issues, The New Companion to Medical Sociology offers insights into the substantive topics of central interest in medical and health sociology. Coverage ranges from standard subjects such as theory, health and social class, racial and gender stratification, stress, and health professions, to relatively new and engaging topics like bioethics, genetics and society, newly ...

This book provides readers with a single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health sociology. The book not only addresses the major theoretical approaches in the field today, it also identifies the future directions these theories are likely to take in explaining the social processes affecting health and disease. Many of the chapters are written by leading medical sociologists who feature the use of theory in their...

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This book provides readers with a single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health sociology. The book not only addresses the major theoretical approaches in the field today, it also identifies the future directions these theories are likely to take in explaining the social processes affecting health and disease. Many of the chapters are written by leading medical sociologists who feature the use of theory in their...

Including chapters from 35 leading international experts on health-related issues, The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology offers insights into the substantive topics of central interest in medical and health sociology. Coverage ranges from standard subjects such as theory, health and social class, racial and gender stratification, stress, and health professions, to relatively new and engaging topics like bioethics, genetics and socie...

Explores the links between health and globalization. Considers important issues such as the global spread of pandemics (such as swine flu and bird flu), effects of migration, and health care systems across the world.