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.

978-0-8265-1721-0


Sociology, Medical|Social Medicine

RA 418 / .B57 2010