INTRODUCTION

PART I Medical Sociology

Health, Illness, and Healing in an Uncertain Era: Challenges from and for Medical Sociology

Bernice A. Pescosolido

Jennie J. Kronenfeld

PART II Epidemiology

Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease

Bruce G. Link

Jo Phelan

PART III Social Demography of Health

Double Jeopardy to Health Hypothesis for African Americans: Analysis and Critique

Kenneth F. Ferraro

Melissa M. Farmer

The Links between Education and Health

Catherine E. Ross

Chia-ling Wu

PART IV Social Stress

The Sociological Study of Stress

Leonard I. Pearlin

Stress, Coping, and Social Support Processes: Where Are We? What Next?

Peggy A. Thoits

Social Support and Social Structure: A Descriptive Epidemiology

R. Jay Turner

Franco Marino

PART V Health Behavior

Conceptualizing Contemporary Health Lifestyles: Moving beyond Weber

William C. Cockerham

Alfred Rutten

Thomas Abel

Sex Stratification and Health Lifestyle: Consequences for Men's and Women's Perceived Health

Catherine E. Ross

Chloe E. Bird

PART VI Illness Behavior

Beyond Rational Choice: The Social Dynamics of How People Seek Help

Bernice A. Pescosolido

Reshaping of Self: A Pendular Reconstruction of Self and Identity among Adults with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

Karen K. Yoshida

Uncertainty and the Lives of Persons with AIDS

Rose Weitz

PART VII Healing Options

The Redefinition of the Situation: The Social Construction of Spiritual Healing Experiences

Deborah C. Glik

PART VIII Doctor-Patient Interaction

A Critical Theory of Medical Discourse: Ideology, Social Control, and the Processing of Social Context in Medical Encounters

Howard Waitzkin

Emotional Expression during Medical Encounters: Social Dis-ease and the Medical Gaze

Patricia S. Baker

William C. Yoels

Jeffrey M. Clair

PART IX Physician Socialization

Toward a New Sociology of Medical Education

Donald W. Light

Learning to Doctor: Reflections on Recent Accounts of the Medical School Years

Peter Conrad

Gender and Medical Socialization

Steven C. Martin

Robert M. Arnold

Ruth M. Parker

PART X Physicians in a Changing Society

Rationalization and the Deprofessionalization of Physicians

George Ritzer

David Walczak

Professional Dynamics and the Changing Nature of Medical Work

Frederic W. Hafferty

Donald W. Light

PART XI Nurses

Women in a Women's Job: The Gendered Experiences of Nurses

Sam Porter

PART XII Hospitals and the Health Care System

Paying the Hospital: American Problems and Foreign Solutions

William A. Glaser

Through the Lenses of Organizational Sociology: The Role of Organizational Theory and Research in Conceptualizing and Examining Our Health Care System

Ann Barry Flood

Mary L. Fennell

PART XIII Health Care Delivery and Social Policy in the United States

Playing by the Rules and Losing: Health Insurance and the Working Poor

Karen Seccombe

Cheryl Amey

Why Congress Did Not Enact Health Care Reform

Vicente Navarro

Whatever Happened to the Health Insurance Crisis in the United States? Voices from a National Survey

Karen Donelan

Robert J. Blendon

Craig A. Hill

Martin Frankel

Catherine Hoffman

Diane Rowland

Drew Altman

Health of the Public: The Private-Sector Challenge

Jonthan Showstack

Nicole Lurie

Sheila Leatherman

Elliott Fisher

Thomas Inui

PART XIV Health Care in Selected Countries

The Americanization of the British National Health Service

David Mechanic

The Health Crisis in the Former Soviet Union: A Report from the "Post-War" Zone

Mark G. Field

The Legacy of Apartheid in Health and Health Care