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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cockerham, William C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, [2007]
Edition:10th ed.
Subjects:
Social medicine.
Sociology, Medical.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Medical sociology
  • Epidemiology
  • The social demography of health
  • Social stress and health
  • Health behavior and lifestyles
  • Illness behavior
  • The sick role
  • Healing options
  • Physicians
  • Doctor-patient interaction
  • The physician in a changing society
  • Nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, and midwives
  • The hospital in society
  • Health care delivery and social policy in the United States
  • Health care in developed countries
  • Health care in former socialist, socialist, and developing countries.