Jack K. Martin

Anne Rogers

Bernice A. Pescosolido

Jane D. McLeod

The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry. The editors provide a blueprint for guiding research and teaching agendas for the first quarter of the 21st century. In a series of essays, this volume offers a systematic view of the critical questions that face our understanding of the role of social forces in health, illness and healing. It also provides an overall theoretical framework and asks medical sociologists to consider the implications of taking on new directions and approaches. Such issues may include the importance of multiple levels of influences, the utility of dynamic, life course approaches, the role of culture, the impact of social networks, the importance of fundamental causes approaches, and the influences of state structures and policy making.

A Blueprint for the 21st Century

Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing

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This collection of essays by leading race relations experts addresses key issues and debates in the literature and includes chapters on the racial attitudes of both whites and African-Americans.

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