First published in 1981, The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives has become an essential resource for anyone interested in health and health care.Fully updated, the eighth edition includes an all new section on the uninsured as well as 10 new readings examining topics such as the failures of health care reform, new trends in medicalization, the growing power of the drug industry and the determinants of media attention to disease. Provocative and wide-ranging, The Sociology of Health and Illness continues to provide students with an integrated analysis of the most important issues regarding health care today.
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Peter Conrad is the Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences and Chair of the Health: Science, Society and Policy program at Brandeis University. He earned his doctorate from Boston University. The author of numerous books and journal articles on the sociology of health and illness, Dr. Conrad received the Leo G. Reeder Award from the American Sociological Association in 2004 for his distinguished contributions to medical sociology. His works include the award-winning Deviance and Medicalization (written with J.W. Schneider), the co-edited Handbook of Medical Sociology, Fifth Edition, and his newest book, The Medicalization of Society, published in 2007.
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Book was needed for a college course but is a little hard to understand some of the language. Must better for a Graduate studies course.
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Out of date,
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Although this text is well organized, has good introductions to the major sections, and includes many essential "classic" readings in the sociology of medicine, it is completely out of date.
Don't let the 2009 publication date fool you: the reading on AIDS stigma by Herek is from 1994 and the chapter on organ transplants by Kuttner is from 1987. Several of the readings about health care reform are similarly out of date. It's quite cynical, really. I have admired Peter Conrad's professional work in the field for a long time, but think less of him after he put his name on this product.
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