数量xvi, 522 pages : ; 23 cm.
寄与者Gregory L. Weiss and Lynne E. Lonnquist.
一般注記A brief introduction to the sociology of health, healing, and illness -- The development of scientific medicine -- Social epidemiology -- Society, disease, and illness -- Social stress -- Health behavior -- Experiencing illness and disability -- Physicians and the profession of medicine -- Medical education and the socialization of physicians -- Nurses, advanced practice providers, and allied health workers -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- The physician-patient relationship: background and models -- Professional and ethical obligations of physicians in the physician-patient relationship -- The health care system of the United States -- Health care delivery -- The social implications of advanced health care technology -- Comparative health care systems.