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

by Rose Weitz

Completely up to date and featuring a friendly style, THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH A CRITICAL APPROACH, 7th Edition delivers a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview that will challenge you to think creatively and analytically about health and health care. You'll gain an understanding of how social forces affect who gets ill, how we think about illness, how we get our health care, and what it is like to work in the health care field. You will also have the chance to explore the ethical dilemmas that underlie modern health care as well as the politics behind those dilemmas. Although the text focuses on health within the United States, it also examines how health, illness, and health care differ around the world.Important Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Genres: Sociology, Nonfiction, Health, Read For School

432 pages, Kindle Edition

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.