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Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Taking “The Promise” Seriously: Medical Sociology’s Role in Health, Illness, and Healing in a Time of Social Change
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    Chapter 2 Medical Sociology and Its Relationship to Other Disciplines: The Case of Mental Health and the Ambivalent Relationship Between Sociology and Psychiatry
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    Chapter 3 Organizing the Sociological Landscape for the Next Decades of Health and Health Care Research: The Network Episode Model III-R as Cartographic Subfield Guide
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    Chapter 4 Fundamental Causality: Challenges of an Animating Concept for Medical Sociology
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    Chapter 5 Learning from Other Countries: Comparing Experiences and Drawing Lessons for the United States
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    Chapter 6 Health and the Social Rights of Citizenship: Integrating Welfare-State Theory and Medical Sociology
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    Chapter 7 Health Social Movements: Advancing Traditional Medical Sociology Concepts
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    Chapter 8 Layering Control: Medicalization, Psychopathy, and the Increasing Multi-institutional Management of Social Problems
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    Chapter 9 Community Systems Collide and Cooperate: Control of Deviance by the Legal and Mental Health Systems
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    Chapter 10 Medicalization and Biomedicalization Revisited: Technoscience and Transformations of Health, Illness and American Medicine
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    Chapter 11 Two Cultures: Two Ships: The Rise of a Professionalism Movement Within Modern Medicine and Medical Sociology’s Disappearance from the Professionalism Debate
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    Chapter 12 Medicine as a Family-Friendly Profession?
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    Chapter 13 Clash of Logics, Crisis of Trust: Entering the Era of Public For-Profit Health Care?
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    Chapter 14 Health Care Policy and Medical Sociology
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    Chapter 15 The Consumer Turn in Medicalization: Future Directions with Historical FoundationsFuture Directions with Historical Foundations
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    Chapter 16 Mundane Medicine, Therapeutic Relationships, and the Clinical Encounter: Current and Future Agendas for Sociology
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    Chapter 17 After 30 Years, Problems and Prospects in the Study of Doctor–Patient Interaction
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    Chapter 18 Enter Health Information Technology: Expanding Theories of the Doctor–Patient Relationship for the Twenty-First Century Health Care Delivery System
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    Chapter 19 Culture, Race/Ethnicity and Disparities: Fleshing Out the Socio-Cultural Framework for Health Services Disparities
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    Chapter 20 Health Disparities and the Black Middle Class: Overview, Empirical Findings, and Research Agenda
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    Chapter 21 Gender and Health Revisited
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    Chapter 22 Hearsay Ethnography: A Method for Learning About Responses to Health Interventions
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    Chapter 23 Life Course Approaches to Health, Illness and Healing
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    Chapter 24 The Complexities of Help-Seeking: Exploring Challenges Through a Social Network Perspective
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    Chapter 25 Bodies in Context: Potential Avenues of Inquiry for the Sociology of Chronic Illness and Disability Within a New Policy Era
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    Chapter 26 Identity and Illness
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    Chapter 27 Learning to Love Animal (Models) (or) How (Not) to Study Genes as a Social Scientist
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    Chapter 28 Taking the Medical Sciences Seriously: Why and How Medical Sociology Should Incorporate Diverse Disciplinary Perspectives
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Chapter title
Fundamental Causality: Challenges of an Animating Concept for Medical Sociology
Chapter number 4
Book title
Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing
Published by
Springer New York, January 2011
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7261-3_4
Book ISBNs
978-1-4419-7259-0, 978-1-4419-7261-3
Authors

Jeremy Freese, Karen Lutfey

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Unknown 118 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 38 32%
Researcher 14 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 10%
Student > Master 12 10%
Professor 8 7%
Other 14 12%
Unknown 22 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 64 53%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Psychology 4 3%
Other 9 8%
Unknown 27 23%