The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach

by Rose Weitz

Extremely reader friendly and completely up to date, THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH, 6e delivers a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview and challenges readers to question previously held beliefs about health and illness. Dr. Weitz's thorough discussions of health and medicine emphasize the effects of power and how social forces create illness, affect our ideas about the meaning of illness and disability, structure health care institutions, and impact the work and social position of health care workers. While the text focuses on health within the United States, it also examines global health care issues.

Genres: Sociology, Nonfiction, Health, Read For School

432 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2000

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Who wouldn't want to go to bed nestled with a book on the haunting social aspects of illness and disease?!

[Lindsay]

Read as part of a sociology of health course.

[Nikoya · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a Sociology Textbook that wasn't painful to read. It was extremely informative and taught me how to look at health/illness through that lens.

[Daniel]

Reading the 6th edition for school.