Sociology of Health, Illness, And Health Care A Critical Approach

This highly readable and thoroughly up-to-date text offers a comprehensive overview of the field of sociology of health, including both micro and macro-level topics. Dr. Weitz examines the subject matter with a critical approach, which emphasizes the effects of power (such as how gender, ethnicity, and social class affect individual's experiences of health and illness), and how social forces create illness, affect our ideas about the nature of illness, and impact the work and position of health care workers. This text concentrates on health within the United States, but also looks at global health care issues.Weitz, Rose is the author of 'Sociology of Health, Illness, And Health Care A Critical Approach', published 2006 under ISBN 9780495172031 and ISBN 0495172030.