Sociology of Health, Illness and Health Care: A Critical Approach - Softcover

Weitz, Professor Rose

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9780534247560: Sociology of Health, Illness and Health Care: A Critical Approach

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ISBN 10: 0534247563 ISBN 13: 9780534247560

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

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Traditionally, medical sociology texts have been written from a medical perspective, focusing primarily on health issues as they have been defined by doctors, and often reading much like health education textbooks. Weitz, instead, adopts a critical perspective, sometimes challenging medical perspectives, sometimes raising broader issues beyond those of interest to the medical world. This perspective, which is more thoroughly sociological, is now more common among instructors than the older medical perspective.

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This text adopts a critical perspective, which challenges medical perspectives and sometimes raises broader issues beyond those of interest to the medical world. This perspective, which is thoroughly sociological, is now becoming more common than the older medical perspective.

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