The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology (Blackwell Companions to Sociology)

616 Pages·2009·2.78 MB·English

by  William C. Cockerham

the new blackwell companion to medical sociology
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The new Blackwell companion to medical sociology / edited by William C. Cockerham.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-8868-5 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Social medicine. I. Cockerham, William C.
RA418.N3885 2010
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Contents
List of Contributors viii
Preface xv
PART I INTRODUCTION 1
1 Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory 3
William C. Cockerham and Graham Scambler
2 Health and Culture 27
Stella Quah
3 The Sociology of the Body 47
Sarah Nettleton
PART II HEALTH AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES 69
4 Health and Social Stratifi cation 71
Eero Lahelma
5 Health Status and Gender 97
Ellen Annandale
6 Health, Ethnicity, and Race 113
Hannah Bradby and James Y. Nazroo
PART III HEALTH AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS 131
7 Health and Religion 133
Ellen L. Idler
8 Health Lifestyles: Bringing Structure Back 159
William C. Cockerham
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9 Social Capital and Health 184
Lijun Song, Joonmo Son, and Nan Lin
10 Medicalization, Social Control, and the Relief of Suffering 211
Joseph E. Davis
11 Stress 242
William R. Avison and Stephanie S. Thomas
12 Stress in the Workplace 268
Johannes Siegrist
PART IV HEALTH AND DISEASE 289
13 Emerging Infectious Diseases, Urbanization, and
Globalization in the Time of Global Warming 291
George J. Armelagos and Kristin N. Harper
14 Chronic Illness 312
Kathy Charmaz and Dana Rosenfeld
PART V HEALTH CARE DELIVERY 335
15 Health Professions and Occupations 337
Elianne Riska
16 Challenges to the Doctor–Patient Relationship in the
Twenty-First Century 355
Jennifer Vanderminden and Sharyn J. Potter
17 Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Processes of
Legitimation, Professionalization, and Cooption 373
Hans A. Baer
18 The American Health Care System: Beginning the
Twenty-First Century with High Risk, Major Challenges,
and Great Opportunities 391
Bernice A. Pescosolido and Carol A. Boyer
19 The British Health Care System 412
Michael Bury
20 The Convergence and Divergence of Modern
Health Care Systems 434
Fred Stevens
21 Social Policies and Health Inequalities 455
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée and Tania Jenkins
PART VI NEW DEVELOPMENTS 485
22 A Sociological Gaze on Bioethics 487
Kristina Orfali and Raymond G. DeVries
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23 Medical Sociology and Genetics 511
Paul A. Martin and Robert Dingwall
24 New Developments in Neuroscience and Medical Sociology 530
Simon J. Williams
Author Index 552
Subject Index 584
Contributors
Ellen Annandale , PhD (Brown University), is Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Sociology at the University of Leicester (UK). Her most recent books are Women ’ s
Health and Social Change (2009) and the C urrent Sociology Monograph, N ew
Connections: Towards a Gender - Inclusive Approach to Women ’ s and Men ’ s Health
(2009), co- edited with Elianne Riska. She is Vice - President of the Research Com-
mittee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association and Editor-
in - Chief of the journal S ocial Science and Medicine .
George J. Armelagos, PhD (University of Colorado), is Goodrich C. White Professor
of Anthropology at Emory University (USA). He is a Wenner - Gren Viking Medalist
and the recipient of the Franz Boaz Award from the American Anthropological
Association and the Charles Darwin Award from the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists.
William R. Avison , PhD (University of Alberta), is Professor of Sociology, Pediatrics,
and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
He chairs the Child Health and Well -B eing Program of the Children’ s Health
Research Institute and is Assistant Director of the Lawson Health Research Institute.
He received the James R. Greenley Award for Distinguished Contributions to the
Sociology of Mental Health from the Society for the Study of Social Problems and
the Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociological
Study of Mental Health from the American Sociological Association. He was Chair
of the Section on the Sociology of Mental Health (1998– 9) and Chair of the Medical
Sociology Section (2009– 10) of the American Sociological Association.
Hans A. Baer, PhD (University of Utah), is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philoso-
phy, Anthropology, and Social Inquiry and the Centre for Health and Society at the
University of Melbourne in Australia. He has published 14 books and numerous
chapters and journal articles on alternative medicine and other topics. His books
include B iomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Race,