William C. Cockerham

William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. In addition, he is currently affiliated with the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center (MHERC) in the Division of Preventive Medicine at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine. He is a past president of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association. Various books he has authored on the social aspects of health and disease are translated into Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish.

New books include Sociological Theories of Health and Illness (Routledge, 2021), The COVID-19 Reader: The Science and What It Says About the Social (Routledge, 2021), the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology (Wiley Blackwell, 2021), Sociology of Mental Disorder 11th ed. (Routledge, 2021), and the Social Causes of Health and Disease 3rd ed. (Polity, 2021) that was nominated for the 2021 British Medical Association (BMA) Book Awards. His most recent book is the 15th edition of Medical Sociology (Routledge, 2022). The 12th edition of the Sociology of Mental Disorder will be published in May 2024.