Perspectives on the sociology of health, healing, and illness. A brief introduction to the sociology of health, healing, and illness -- The development of scientific medicine -- The influence of the social environment on health and illness. Social epidemiology -- Society, disease, and illness -- Social stress -- Health and illness behavior. Health behavior -- Experiencing illness and disability -- Health care practitioners and their relationship with patients. Physicians and the profession of medicine -- Medical education and the socialization of physicians -- Nurses, mid-level health care practitioners, and allied health workers -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Physician/patient relationship : background and models -- Professional and ethical obligations of physicians in the physician/patient relationship -- Health care system. Health care system of the United States -- Health care delivery -- The social implications of advanced health care technology -- Comparative health care systems.
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