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Advance your understanding of medical sociology with this comprehensive volume from Springer. The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness and Healing identifies the most important contemporary challenges facing the field today. It serves as a vital resource for researchers and educators looking to navigate the complexities of social forces in relation to health and wellness. This book provides a systematic view of the critical questions currently shaping the discipline. By offering a theoretical framework, it helps guide research and teaching agendas for the first quarter of the 21st century. Whether you are a student, academic, or practitioner, this handbook offers a clear blueprint for future inquiry into how social structures affect the processes of illness and healing.

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Provides a systematic view of the critical questions facing modern medical sociology.

Identifies major contemporary challenges to help direct future research and study.

Offers a theoretical framework for understanding social forces in health and illness.

Acts as a blueprint for developing teaching and research agendas in the 21st century.

Includes a series of essays that explore the roles of social forces in healing processes.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
21 December 2010
Listed Since
08 July 2010

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