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The most comprehensive major academic textbook available on its topic, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. Since the bookâs inception, its principal goal has been to introduce students to the field of medical sociology and serve as a reference for faculty by presenting the most current ideas, issues, concepts, themes, theories, and research findings in the field. This 16th edition is heavily revised, with updated data and important new additions.

New to this edition:

  • Updated chapter on the social causes, impacts, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic (Chapter 3)
  • Analysis of the widening 10-year gap in average life expectancy in American society between the wealthy and well-educated and the poor and less-educated (Chapter 4)
  • Expanded discussion of the effects of racism on phys

Medical Sociology

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    A Paperback by William C. Cockerham

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 4 February 2025
      ISBN-13 9781032907864
      978-1032907864
      ISBN-10 103290786X
      Also in:
      Science & Nature Human biology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The most comprehensive major academic textbook available on its topic, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. Since the bookâs inception, its principal goal has been to introduce students to the field of medical sociology and serve as a reference for faculty by presenting the most current ideas, issues, concepts, themes, theories, and research findings in the field. This 16th edition is heavily revised, with updated data and important new additions.

      New to this edition:

      • Updated chapter on the social causes, impacts, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic (Chapter 3)
      • Analysis of the widening 10-year gap in average life expectancy in American society between the wealthy and well-educated and the poor and less-educated (Chapter 4)
      • Expanded discussion of the effects of racism on phys

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