Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition - 6th Edition by Chloe E Bird & Peter Conrad & Allen M Fremont & Stefan Timmermans (Paperback)

About the Book

The latest version of an important academic resource published about once a decade since 1963

Book Synopsis

Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by many outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this volume has new chapters on topics that include:

- social networks, neighborhoods, and social capital
- disability
- dying and "the right to die"
- health disparities
- the growing influence of the pharmaceutical industry
- the Internet
- evidence-based medicine and quality of care
- health social movements
- genetics
- religion, spirituality, and health

Review Quotes

"I recommend this book strongly as a breath of fresh air (seemingly from Mars) into our stuffy medical realm."
--Howard Spiro, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Yale Medical School

About the Author

Allen M. Fremont is a physician, sociologist, and health services researcher based at RAND, with appointments at UCLA and the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Chloe E. Bird is Senior Sociologist at the RAND Corporation.

Peter Conrad is Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University.

Stefan Timmermans is Professor of Sociology at UCLA.