Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing A Blueprint for the 21st Century /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Pescosolido, Bernice A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Martin, Jack K. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), McLeod, Jane D. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Rogers, Anne (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Σειρά: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research,
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Public health.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Public Health.

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 agenda...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Rethinking Connecting Sociology’s Role in Health, Illness & Healing From Top to Bottom
• Preface
• Taking "the Promise" Seriously: Medical Sociology in a Time of Change
• Framing the Context and Dynamics of Health and Health Care: The NEM
• Connecting Communities
• Welfare States, and Citizen’s Welfare
• Taking Social Movements Seriously
• "Fundamental Causes" Expanded
• Of Politics and Health
• Community Systems Collide: the Case of the Legal and Mental Health System
• Connecting Health Systems and Health Care
• Medicalization Reconsidered: Understanding Consumer Response
• Conversations of Care
• Expanding Theories of the Doctor-Patient Relationship for Contemporary Landscape of Medicine
• Professions of Medicine
• The Power of Nurses
• The Health Care System
• The Organization of Care
• Health and Health Policy
• Systems of Healing
• Connecting Personal & Cultural Systems
• Taking Health Disparities to Task: The Socio-Cultural Framework
• Taking Social Networks Seriously
• Rethinking Cultural Methods: "Hearsay Ethnography" and the Case of HIV
• Gender Revisited
• The Health Paradox of the Black Middle Class
• Reconsidering Stigma: Lessons from Sociology’s Legacy on Racial Prejudice and Discrimination
• Connecting the Illness Career
• Taking the Life Course Seriously
• Dynamics of Care
• Taking "History" and "history" Seriously
• Stories Matter
• Network Dynamic and Use of Services
• VI. Connecting the Individual and the Body
• Identity and Illness
• Taking Individuals Seriously: Developing Tailored Outcomes
• How Socio-Economic Status Works Through the Body to Shape Health and Illness
• Taking Biology Seriously
• Body Related Social Movements.