Health and Health Care as Social Problems (Understanding Social Problems)

Conrad, Peter (Editor)/ Leiter, Valerie (Editor)

ISBN 10: 074252857X / ISBN 13: 9780742528574

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2003

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illustrated edition. 376 pages. 9.75x6.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Health and Health Care as Social Problems (Understanding Social Problems)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074252857X
• ISBN 13: 9780742528574
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.66 kilograms

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Synopsis

This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness are at least partly socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good and often brings with it serious social problems. The volume is organized into six sections, addressing the medicalization of human problems; the social construction of health problems; social movements; gender; race and class and the provision of health care; and medical accountability. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the depth and richness of a social problems approach to health and medicine, and the critical perspective it brings to our understanding of health and illness in U.S. society.

About the Author

Peter Conrad is a literary critic and cultural historian. His books include The Everyman History of English Literature; Creation: Artists, Gods & Origins; and Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the Twentieth Century.