This book provides readers with a single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health sociology. The book not only addresses the major

This book reflects on how our understanding and experience of health at later ages in particular can impact on social and technological developments.

For upper-division undergraduate/beginning graduate-level courses in Medical Sociology, and for Behavioral Science courses in schools of Public Health, Medicine

The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and imp

Originally published in 1987, this book builds bridges between medical sociology and mainstream theory. It does so by demonstrating in new and important ways ho