Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition

Allen M. Fremont is a physician, sociologist, and health services researcher based at RAND, with appointments at UCLA and the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center.Chloe E. Bird is Senior Sociologist at the RAND Corporation.Peter Conrad is Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University.Stefan Timmermans is Professor of Sociology at UCLA.

"I recommend this book strongly as a breath of fresh air (seemingly from Mars) into our stuffy medical realm."—Howard Spiro, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Yale Medical School

• Preface to the Sixth EditionChloe E. Bird, Peter Conrad, Allen M. Fremont, and Stefan TimmermansPart I: Social Contexts and Health Disparities1. Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health InequalitiesBruce Link and Jo Phelan2. Social Capital and HealthIchiro Kawachi3. Why Education Is the Key to Socioeconomic Differentials in HealthCatherine E. Ross and John Mirowsky4. Understanding Gender and Health: Old Patterns, New Trends, and Future DirectionsPatricia P. Rieker, Chloe E. Bird, and Martha E. Lang5. Social Support, Sex, and Food: Social Networks and HealthGina S. Lovasi, jimi adams, and Peter S. Bearman6. Race, Social Contexts, and Health: Examining Geographic Spaces and PlacesDavid T. Takeuchi, Emily Walton, and ManChui Leung7. The Latino Health Paradox: Looking at the Intersection of Sociology and HealthTamara Dubowitz, Lisa M. Bates, and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia8. A Life-Course Approach to the Study of Neighborhoods and HealthStephanie A. Robert, Kathleen A. Cagney, and Margaret M. WedenPart II: Health Trajectories and Experiences9. The Social Construction of Illness: Medicalization and Contested IllnessKristin K. Barker10. The Patient’s Experience of IllnessDavid A. Rier11. The Internet and the Experience of IllnessPeter Conrad and Cheryl Stults12. The Sociology of Disability: Historical Foundations and Future DirectionsGary L. Albrecht13. Death, Dying, and the Right to DieClive SealePart III: Health-Care Organization, Delivery, and Impact14. Gender and Health CareRenee R. Anspach15. Institutional Change and the Organization of Health Care: The Dynamics of “Muddling Through”Peter Mendel and W. Richard Scott16. Health-Care Professions, Markets, and Countervailing PowersDonald W. Light17. The Sociological Concomitants of the Pharmaceutical Industry and MedicationsJohn Abraham18. Evidence-Based Medicine: Sociological ExplorationsStefan Timmermans19. The Sociology of Quality and Safety in Health Care: Studying a Movement and Moving SociologyTeun Zuiderent-Jerak and Marc BergPart IV: Crosscutting Issues20. Religion, Spirituality, Health, and Medicine: Sociological IntersectionsWendy Cadge and Brian Fair21. Health, Security, and New Biological Threats: Reconfigurations of ExpertiseStephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff22. Health Social Movements: History, Current Work, and Future DirectionsPhil Brown, Crystal Adams, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Laura Senier, and Ruth Simpson23. The Application of Biomarker Data to the Study of Social Determinants of HealthRegina A. Shih, Meenakshi M. Fernandes, and Chloe E. Bird24. Gene-Environment Interaction and Medical SociologySara Shostak and Jeremy Freese25. Biotechnology and the Prolongation of Life: A Sociological CritiqueBryan S. TurnerContributorsIndex