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Barkan, Steven E., 1951-

Health, illness, and society : an introduction to medical sociology / Steven E. Barkan. - Updated second edition. - Lanham Maryland: The Rowman & Little Publishing Group, 2023. - xiv, 368p.: ill.; 26cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sociology and the Study of Health and Illness -- A Social History of Health and Illness -- Health Behavior -- Illness Behavior and the Illness Experience -- Social Causes of Health and Health Problems -- Global Disparities in Health and Disease -- Medical School and the Training of Physicians -- Physicians and Their Interaction with Patients -- Other Health Care Providers : Conventional and Alternative -- Hospitals and Other Health Care Settings -- Health and Health Care in the World's Wealthy Democracies -- The U.S. Health Care System -- Health Care Reform: Obamacare and Beyond -- The COVID-19 Pandemic.

"Concisely integrates recent research with the social determinants of health to provide a comprehensive introduction to medical sociology"--

ISBN: 9781538177648

LCCN: 2022053100

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Delivery of Health Care
Social Determinants of Health
Quality of Health Care
Sociological Factors

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States

LC Class. No.: RA418 / .B37 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1

National Library of Medicine Call No.: W 84 AA1