Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition

Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by many outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this volume has new chapters on topics that include:

social networks, neighborhoods, and social capital
disability
dying and the right to die
health disparities
the growing influence of the pharmaceutical industry
the Internet
evidence-based medicine and quality of care
health social movements
genetics
religion, spirituality, and health