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Social Causes of Health and Disease
William C. Cockerham
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Description for Social Causes of Health and Disease
Paperback. In this stimulating book, William Cockerham, a leading medical sociologist, assesses the evidence that social factors have direct causal effects on health and many diseases. He argues that stress, poverty, unhealthy lifestyles, and unpleasant living and work conditions can all be directly associated with illness. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFFH; MBNS; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
In this stimulating book, William C. Cockerham, a leading medical sociologist, assesses the evidence that social factors (such as stress, poverty, unhealthy lifestyles, and unpleasant living and work conditions) have direct causal effects on health and many diseases. Noting a new emphasis upon social structure in both theory and multi-level research techniques, the author argues that a paradigm shift has been emerging in 21st-century medical sociology, which looks beyond individual explanations for health and disease. The field has headed toward a fundamentally different orientation, and Cockerham s work has been at the forefront of these changes. The second edition of ... Read more
In this stimulating book, William C. Cockerham, a leading medical sociologist, assesses the evidence that social factors (such as stress, poverty, unhealthy lifestyles, and unpleasant living and work conditions) have direct causal effects on health and many diseases. Noting a new emphasis upon social structure in both theory and multi-level research techniques, the author argues that a paradigm shift has been emerging in 21st-century medical sociology, which looks beyond individual explanations for health and disease. The field has headed toward a fundamentally different orientation, and Cockerham s work has been at the forefront of these changes. The second edition of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
400g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745661209
SKU
V9780745661209
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About William C. Cockerham
William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
Reviews for Social Causes of Health and Disease
William Cockerham has written a thorough and comprehensive book elucidating the wide range of social causation of disease. Rather than taking a biomedical disease-by-disease approach, Cockerham emphasizes how particular sociological factors produce disease and illness. Established health researchers and neophytes alike will find great value in this volume. Peter Conrad, Brandeis University Organized around a remarkably broad and cogent theoretical ... Read more