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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Wadsworth Pub Co
Publication date
July 1, 2003
Pages
475
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780534619381
ISBN-10
053461938X
Dimensions
1 by 6.75 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.80 lbs.
Original list price
$117.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The medical sociology course looks at the distribution of health and illness, the nature of the health care system, the roles of mainstream and alternative health care providers, and the experiences of those who live with illness or disability. Rose Weitz adds to this traditional subject matter a critical approach which emphasizes the effects of power, such as how gender, ethnicity, and social class affect individuals' experiences of health and illness and how social forces create illness and affect our ideas about the nature of illness. This text concentrates on health within the United States, but also looks at health care issues globally in order to provide a perspective to the American experience. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the field of sociology of health, including both micro- and macro-level topics. It emphasizes the sociological issues far more than the other available textbooks. The book is highly readable, and grabs students attention in a way that is rare for a textbook. It has been thoroughly updated; more than 40 percent of the references were published in the last five years.
Editions
Hardcover
6 edition from Wadsworth Pub Co (January 1, 2012)
9781111828790 | details & prices | 406 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.54 lbs | List price $233.95
5th edition from Wadsworth Pub Co (February 13, 2009)
9780495598879 | details & prices | 413 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 0.07 in. | 1.60 lbs | List price $256.95
About: Learn about health and medicine in THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH, which presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary sociological topics and challenges readers to question their previously held beliefs about health, illness, and health care.
About: Learn about health and medicine in THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH, which presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary sociological topics and challenges readers to question their previously held beliefs about health, illness, and health care.
4th edition from Wadsworth Pub Co (April 14, 2006)
9780495172031 | details & prices | 486 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $142.95
About: Why do people get ill, and how should we care for them?
About: Why do people get ill, and how should we care for them?
The price comparison is for this edition
from Wadsworth Pub Co (July 1, 2003)
9780534619381 | details & prices | 475 pages | 6.75 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.80 lbs | List price $117.95
About: The medical sociology course looks at the distribution of health and illness, the nature of the health care system, the roles of mainstream and alternative health care providers, and the experiences of those who live with illness or disability.
About: The medical sociology course looks at the distribution of health and illness, the nature of the health care system, the roles of mainstream and alternative health care providers, and the experiences of those who live with illness or disability.
from Wadsworth Pub Co (July 1, 2000); titled "Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach"
9780534247560 | details & prices | 476 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $88.95
About: Traditionally, medical sociology texts have been written from a medical perspective, focusing primarily on health issues as they have been defined by doctors, and often reading much like health education textbooks.
About: Traditionally, medical sociology texts have been written from a medical perspective, focusing primarily on health issues as they have been defined by doctors, and often reading much like health education textbooks.
With Ian Friel |
from Wadsworth Pub Co (August 1, 1995)
9780534207427 | details & prices | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $71.95
This edition also contains Henry V's Navy: The Sea-road to Agincourt and Conquest 1413-1422
About: The first text to take a critical approach to our health care systems, it provides an analysis of the relationship between American social organizations/institutions and the medical care system.
This edition also contains Henry V's Navy: The Sea-road to Agincourt and Conquest 1413-1422
About: The first text to take a critical approach to our health care systems, it provides an analysis of the relationship between American social organizations/institutions and the medical care system.
Paperback
7 edition from Wadsworth Pub Co (January 1, 2016)
9781305583702 | details & prices | 400 pages | 6.25 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $240.95
6 edition from Wadsworth Pub Co (September 16, 2015)
9781305664173 | details & prices | List price $240.95
6 int edition from Gardners Books (December 15, 2011)
9781111831813 | details & prices | 432 pages | 8.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $86.10
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