Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada

Type

Book

Authors

Juanne Clarke

ISBN 10

0195419014

ISBN 13

9780195419016

Tags

Biostatistics, Public Health, Preventive, Preventive Medicine, Research, Social Sciences, General, Sociology

Description

Using four different sociological perspectives-structural-funcational, conflict, symbolic interactionist, and feminist-Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada 4e provides an essential study to the sociology of health. The text examines occupational diseases, environmental challenges, the inequalities of age, gender, class, race, and ethnicity, the experience of getting sick and going to the doctor, and the extensive and profit-motivated impact of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. - from Amzon

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