| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: monographic
|
| Author: |
Cockerham, William C. |
| Place of Publication: |
Upper Saddle River, N.J. |
| Published: |
Prentice Hall; |
| Year of Publication: |
c1998. |
| Edition: |
7th ed. |
| Description: |
xii, 395 p.ill. : 24 cm.; |
| Subject: |
Social medicine. - |
| ISBN: |
0132695561 |
| Content Note: |
Ch. 1. Medical sociology -- Ch. 2. Epidemiology -- Ch. 3. The social demography of health -- Ch. 4. Social stress -- Ch. 5. Health behavior -- Ch. 6. Illness behavior -- Ch. 7. Healing options in American society -- Ch. 8. The sick role -- Ch. 9. Doctor-patient interaction -- Ch. 10. Physicians -- Ch. 11. The physician in a changing society -- Ch. 12. Nurses, physician assistants, and midwives. |
| Content Note: |
Ch. 13. Hospitals -- Ch. 14. Health care delivery and social policy in the United States -- Ch. 15. Health care in developed countries -- Ch. 16. Health care in developing and formerly socialist countries. |