The Sociology of Health, Healing and Illness - Hardcover

Weiss, Gregory L.; Lonnquist, Lynne E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0138190615 ISBN 13: 9780138190613

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

Covering traditional topics and emerging trends in medical sociology, this text includes: medical ethics, AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, alternative healers, the health system, the history of medicine and the role of technology. Matters of gender, race and social class are emphasized. It also discusses questions of social and public policy such as health-care financing, for-profit medicine, doctor-assisted suicide, organ-donation policy and surrogate motherhood.

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About the Author:

Dr. Gregory L. Weiss is Professor of Sociology at Roanoke College where he teaches courses on medical sociology, ethics and medicine, Native Americans, and research methods.  He has led student study tours to Great Britain, Luxembourg, Australia, and to the Navajo and Hopi reservations. Dr. Weiss is author or co-author of three books and more than three dozen journal articles.  He works with a variety of local community organizations including a free health clinic and the SPCA.  Dr. Weiss has received teaching awards from Roanoke College, the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia, the ASA Section on Teaching and Learning, and the Southern Sociological Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0138190615
• ISBN 13: 9780138190613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512