Main description:

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:

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

* Expanded discussion of obesity as a disease

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

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

* New material on biomarkers, gene-environment interaction, and stress

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

* Exiting the Affordable Care Act

Contents:

CONTENTS

Preface

PART I INTRODUCTION

1 Medical Sociology

2 Epidemiology

3 The Social Demography of Health: Social Class

4 The Social Demography of Health: Gender, Age, and Race

PART II HEALTH AND ILLNESS

5 Social Stress and Health

6 Health Behavior and Lifestyles

7 Illness Behavior 162

PART III SEEKING HEALTH CARE

8 The Sick Role

9 Doctor-Patient Interaction

PART IV PROVIDING HEALTH CARE

10 Physicians

11 The Physician in a Changing Society

12 Nurses, Physician Assistants, Pharmacists, and Midwives

13 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

PART V HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS

14 Hospitals

15 Health Care Reform and Health Policy in the United States

16 Global Health Care