The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology - (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology) by William C Cockerham (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is a follow-up to two earlier volumes of this book and the latest work currently in Wiley Blackwell's Companion series. The goal is to bring together leading scholars in medical sociology to provide discussion of the most important issues and review the current research in the field. This edition follows this practice by providing chapters on health-related topics of significant interest. The contributors are from Canada, China, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, who were carefully selected to write chapters on topics in which they were recognized experts. As will be seen in several chapters, this book was organized and written during the 2019-20 COVID-19 global pandemic. Consequently, many of these chapters take the effects of COVID-19 into account. One chapter (Chapter 21) on newly emerging diseases by Ron Barrett (Macalester College), a recipient of the Wellcome Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute in the U.K., focuses directly on COVID-19 with an authoritative account of the pandemic. Part I of this volume begins with a chapter by Terrence Hill (Texas-San Antonio), myself, Jane McLeod (Indiana University), and Fred Hafferty (Mayo Clinic). It analyzes how medical sociology's former subfields of sociology in medicine and the sociology of medicine have changed as its subject matter has enlarged and expanded well beyond these two initial categories. Each of these co-authors addresses a particular area of contemporary research. Hill is one of the most prolific scholars in medical sociology, McLeod is Provost Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Indiana University and recipient of both the James R. Greenley and Leonard I. Pearlin awards for distinguished contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health, and Hafferty is a past chair of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association who is currently at the College of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He has spent his career as a sociologist working in medical institutions. Next, I join Graham Scambler (University College London and Surrey University, U.K.) to provide an overview of sociological theory in medical sociology. Scambler is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, U.K., and editor emeritus of the journal Social Theory & Health. Medical sociology's evolution from an applied and atheoretical field to a subdiscipline that not only draws from theory in sociology but contributes to it is noted. Current theories in the field are reviewed"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A comprehensive collection of original essays by leading medical sociologists from around the world, fully updated to reflect contemporary research and global health issues</b></p> <p><i>The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology</i> is an authoritative overview of the most recent research, major theoretical approaches, and central issues and debates within the field. Bringing together contributions from an international team of leading scholars, this wide-ranging volume summarizes significant new developments and discusses a broad range of globally-relevant topics. <i>The Companion</i>'s twenty-eight chapters contain timely, theoretically-informed coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and emerging diseases, bioethics, healthcare delivery systems, health disparities associated with migration, social class, gender, and race. It also explores mental health, the family, religion, and many other real-world health concerns.</p> <p>The most up-to-date and comprehensive single-volume reference on the key concepts and contemporary issues in medical sociology, this book: </p> <ul> <li>Presents thematically-organized essays by authors who are recognized experts in their fields</li> <li>Features new chapters reflecting state-of-the-art research and contemporary issues relevant to global health</li> <li>Covers vital topics such as current bioethical debates and the global effort to cope with the coronavirus pandemic</li> <li>Discusses the important relationship between culture and health in a global context</li> <li>Provide fresh perspectives on the sociology of the body, biomedicalization, health lifestyle theory, doctor-patient relations, and social capital and health</li> </ul> <p><i>The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology</i> is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in medical sociology, health studies, and health care, as well as for academics, researchers, and practitioners wanting to keep pace with new developments in the field.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><b>THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO Medical Sociology</b> <p><i>The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology</i> is an authoritative overview of the most recent research, major theoretical approaches, and central issues and debates within the field. Bringing together contributions from an international team of leading scholars, this wide-ranging volume summarizes significant new developments and discusses a broad range of globally-relevant topics. The <i>Companion</i>'s twenty-eight chapters contain timely, theoretically-informed coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and emerging diseases, bioethics, healthcare delivery systems, health disparities associated with migration, social class, gender, and race. It also explores mental health, the family, religion, and many other real-world health concerns. <p>The most up-to-date and comprehensive single-volume reference on the key concepts and contemporary issues in medical sociology, this book: <li>Presents thematically-organized essays by authors who are recognized experts in their fields</li> <li>Features new chapters reflecting state-of-the-art research and contemporary issues relevant to global health </li> <li>Covers vital topics such as current bioethical debates and the global effort to cope with the coronavirus pandemic </li> <li>Discusses the important relationship between culture and health in a global context </li> <li>Provide fresh perspectives on the sociology of the body, biomedicalization, health lifestyle theory, doctor-patient relations, and social capital and health </li> <p><i>The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology</i> is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in medical sociology, health studies, and health care, as well as for academics, researchers, and practitioners wanting to keep pace with new developments in the field.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>WILLIAM C. COCKERHAM</b> is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, and Research Scholar of Sociology at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, USA. His PhD is from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He is past President of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association. Currently, he is Deputy Editor of the <i>Journal of Health and Social Behavior</i> and has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the <i>American Sociological Review and Society and Mental Health</i>. Dr. Cockerham has published numerous peer-reviewed papers on medical sociology and is author or editor of nineteen books and two encyclopedias.</p>
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