商品簡介
Research on health disparities — differences in physical and mental health caused by inequalities based on social class, race and ethnicity, and gender — is rapidly growing. Furthermore, the medical community is increasingly recognizing the need for health professionals to understand how various social and cultural factors affect physical and mental health (the MCAT will have a new section on social/cultural influences on health and health care starting in 2015). Health, Medicine, and Society intends to fill the significant gap in the market of medical sociology textbooks with a fresh approach to medical sociology.
作者簡介
Steven E. Barkan is professor of sociology at the University of Maine, where he teaches Health, Medicine, and Society as well as a number of other courses. He is an award-winning textbook author, having written several previous texts, including Criminology: A Sociological Understanding, 5e, Law and Society: An Introduction, Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, Social Problems: Continuity and Change, and Discovering Society: Using MicroCase ExplorIT, 3e. Barkan is a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and currently the Vice President/President-elect of the Text and Academic Authors Association.
