Bird, C.E (ed.)|Fremont, A.M(ed.)|Timmermans, S(ed.)|Conrad, P (ed.)
Handbook of medical sociology
- 6th ed.
- NAshville, TN Vanderbilt University Press 2010
- xiii, 457p.
Reflects on important changes in the study of health and illness to updated and reconceived impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, includes: 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.