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Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- PART I INTRODUCTION -- 1 Medical Sociology and Its Changing Subfields -- 2 Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory -- 3 Research Methods in Medical Sociology -- 4 Health and Culture in the Global Context -- 5 Bioethics: A Study in Sociology -- PART II THEORETICAL APPROACHES -- 6 The Sociology of the Body -- 7 Biomedicalization Revisited -- 8 Health Lifestyles: Bringing Structure Back -- 9 The Life Course Perspective -- 10 Social Capital and Health -- PART III HEALTH AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY -- 11 Health and Social Class -- 12 Health and Gender -- 13 Health, Ethnicity, and Race -- 14 African American Health -- 15 Latinos and Equity in Health Care Access in the US -- 16 Social Policies and Health Inequalities -- PART IV HEALTH AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS -- 17 Health and the Family -- 18 Health and Religion -- 19 Migration and Health -- 20 Mental Health -- PART V HEALTH AND DISEASE -- 21 Emerging Infectious Diseases -- 22 Beyond the Lost Self: Old Insights and New Horizons in the Sociology of Chronic Illness -- PART VI HEALTH CARE DELIVERY -- 23 Health Professions and Occupations -- 24 Doctor-Patient Relationship -- 25 Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- 26 American Health Care System: Reforms for Access, Outcomes, and Cost Amid Legal, Legislative, and Political Disputes -- 27 The British Healthcare System -- 28 The Chinese Health Care System -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- End User License Agreement.

Medical sociology and sociological theory / William C. Cockerham and Graham Scambler -- Health and culture / Stella Quah -- The sociology of the body / Sarah Nettleton -- Health and social stratification / Eero Lahelma -- Health status and gender / Ellen Annandale -- Health, ethnicity, and race / Hannah Bradby and James Y. Nazroo -- Health and religion / Ellen L. Idler -- Health lifestyles : bringing structure back / William C. Cockerham -- Social capital and health / Lijun Song, Joonmo Son, and Nan Lin -- Medicalization, social control, and the relief of suffering / Joseph E. Davis -- Stress / William R. Avison and Stephanie S. Thomas -- Stress in the workplace / Johannes Siegrist -- Emerging infectious diseases, urbanization, and globalization in the time of global warming / George J. Armelagos and Kristin N. Harper -- Chronic illness / Kathy Charmaz and Dana Rosenfeld -- Health professions and occupations / Elianne Riska -- Challenges to the doctor-patient relationship in the twenty-first century / Jennifer Vanderminden and Sharyn J. Potter -- Complementary and alternative medicine : processes of legitimation, professionalization, and cooption / Hans A. Baer -- The American health care system : beginning the twenty-first century with high risk, major challenges, and great opportunities / Bernice A. Pescosolido and Carol A. Boyer -- The British health care system / Michael Bury -- The convergence and divergence of modern health care systems / Fred Stevens -- Social policies and health inequalities / Amélie Quesnel-Vallée and Tania Jenkins -- A sociological gaze on bioethics / Krisina Orfali and Raymond G. DeVries -- Medical sociology and genetics / Paul A. Martin and Robert Dingwall -- New developments in neuroscience and medical sociology / Simon J. Williams