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The most thorough major academic textbook available, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author also integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. A much greater number of first person accounts and updated examples are added to the new fourteenth edition. Other updates include:

â Coverage of Zika, Ebola, MERS, and updates on other pandemics

â Expanded discussion of obesity as a disease

â Coverage of the widening gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor

â New information on the decline of life expectancy among American white women, especially those who live in rural counties

â New material on biomarkers, geneâenvironment interaction, and stress

â Analysis of the role of the hidden curriculum in medical schools

â Exiting the Affordable Care Act

Medical Sociology

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    A Paperback by William C. Cockerham

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/19/2017
      ISBN13: 9781138668324, 978-1138668324
      ISBN10: 113866832X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The most thorough major academic textbook available, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author also integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. A much greater number of first person accounts and updated examples are added to the new fourteenth edition. Other updates include:

      â Coverage of Zika, Ebola, MERS, and updates on other pandemics

      â Expanded discussion of obesity as a disease

      â Coverage of the widening gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor

      â New information on the decline of life expectancy among American white women, especially those who live in rural counties

      â New material on biomarkers, geneâenvironment interaction, and stress

      â Analysis of the role of the hidden curriculum in medical schools

      â Exiting the Affordable Care Act

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