ISBN:
9781405122665
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (534 p)
Series Statement:
Blackwell Companions to Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology
DDC:
306.4/61
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
""The Blackwell Companion to Medical Socicolgy""; ""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""PART I SUBSTANTIVE TOPICS""; ""1 Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory""; ""2 Health and Culture""; ""3 The Sociology of the Body""; ""4 Health and Social Stratification""; ""5 From Women�s Health to a Gender Analysis of Health""; ""6 Work Stress and Health""; ""7 Migration, Health, and Stress""; ""8 Health Professions and Occupations""; ""9 The Convergence and Divergence of Modern Health Care Systems""; ""PART II REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES""; ""The Americas""
Description / Table of Contents:
""10 The American Health Care System: Entering the Twenty-first Century with High Risk, Major Challenges, and Great Opportunities""""11 The Evolution of Health Care in Canada: Toward Community or Corporate Control?""; ""12 Medical Sociology in Mexico""; ""13 Social Science and Health in Brazil""; ""Western Europe""; ""14 Medical Sociology in Great Britain""; ""15 The French Paradoxes""; ""16 Medical Sociology in Germany""; ""17 Society, Health, and Health Care in Sweden""; ""Russia and Eastern Europe""
Description / Table of Contents:
""18 The Russian Health Care Experiment: Transition of the Health Care System and Rethinking the Sociology of Medicine""""19 In and Out of Communism: The Macrosocial Context of Health in Poland""; ""20 Transformation of the Health Care System in the Czech Republic - A Sociological Perspective""; ""Africa""; ""21 Health and Health Care in South Africa Against an African Background""; ""The Middle East""; ""22 Health, Health Care, and Medical Education in the Arab World""; ""23 Health and Health Care in Israel""; ""Asia and the Pacific Region""; ""24 Medicine and Health Care in Australia""
Description / Table of Contents:
""25 Health, Illness, and Health Policy in Japan""""26 The Great Reversal: Transformation of Health Care in the People�s Republic of China""; ""Index""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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