Cockerham, William C. - Medical sociology (14th Edition)

The most thorough major academic textbook available, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author also integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. A much greater number of first-person accounts and updated examples are added to the new fourteenth edition. Other updates include:


• Coverage of Zika, Ebola, MERS, and updates on other pandemics


• Expanded discussion of obesity as a disease


• Coverage of the widening gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor


• New information on the decline of life expectancy among American white women, especially those who live in rural counties


• New material on biomarkers, gene-environment interaction, and stress


• Analysis of the role of the hidden curriculum in medical schools


• Exiting the Affordable Care Act