Suchergebnisse

The market-based healthcare model -- The market for health insurance -- Government intervention and health insurance -- Doctors and the market -- Hospitals -- Pharmaceuticals -- Health sector occupations and organizations -- Market-based health care : the model and the reality -- Some reflections on solutions.

Identifying disease and its causes -- Causes of death -- Age, sex, and race or ethnicity -- External causes of death -- Healthy and unhealthy behaviors : diet -- Healthy and unhealthy behaviors : exercise, smoking, and substance abuse -- Health care -- Genes -- Stress -- Social determinants of health -- Social inequality -- Unequal health

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Paradigms -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter One Paradigms in Sociology -- Chapter Two Conflict Constructionism: Elements of the Paradigm -- Chapter Three History of a Paradigm -- Part II Paradigm Change in Selected Subfields -- Introduction to Part II -- Section 1 Deep Impact: The New Paradigm Becomes Dominant -- Chapter Four Constructing Difference and Dominance: Race-Ethnicity and Gender -- Chapter Five Culture in an Era of Globalization -- Chapter Six Media in the Information Age: Surface Intensities and Total Symbolic Environments -- Chapter Seven Sociology of the Self: From Personality to Persona -- Section 2 Paradigms in Play -- Chapter Eight Political Sociology and the Analysis of Collective Action: Old and New in Harmony -- Chapter Nine Urban Sociology and Spatial Analysis: Paradigms in Coexistence -- Chapter Ten Disruptions in the Field Formerly Known as Sociology of Deviance -- Section 3 Paradigm Limited -- Chapter Eleven Social Class and Socioeconomic Inequality -- Chapter Twelve Contemporary Theories of Family Life -- Section 4 Paradigms Reconstituted in a Transdisciplinary Field -- Chapter Thirteen The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medical Practice -- Conclusion -- Glossary and Concepts -- References -- Suggested Readings -- Index -- About the Authors and Contributors