Sociology of Mental Disorder

William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He previously held a joint appointment in sociology and psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is past President of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association and formerly served on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Society and Mental Health, Social Currents, and other journals. Dr Cockerham has published numerous peer-reviewed papers in academic journals and is author or editor of 20 books. His most recent books from Routledge include Sociological Theories of Health and Illness (2021), Medical Sociology, 15th edition (2021), and The COVID-19 Reader: The Science and What It Says About the Social (2021).

• 1 Madness and Society 2 Types of Mental Disorders 3 Becoming Mentally Disordered: The Examples of Schizophrenia, Anxiety, and Depression 4 Mental Disorder: Concepts of Causes and Cures 5 Mental Disorder as Deviant Social Behavior 6 Mental Disorder: Social Epidemiology 7 Mental Disorder: Social Class 8 Mental Disorder: Age, Gender, and Marital Status 9 Mental Disorder: Race 10 Mental Disorder: Urban versus Rural Living, COVID-19, and Migration 11 Help-Seeking Behavior and the Prepatient Experience 12 Patienthood in Institutions 13 Stigma 14 Community Care and Public Policy 15 Mental Disorder and the Law 16 Mental Disorder and Public Policy in Selected Countries