Health and Health Care as Social Problems
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Health and Health Care as Social Problems
By (Author) Peter Conrad
Edited by Valerie Leiter
Contributions by Elizabeth M. Armstrong
Contributions by Michael Betz
Contributions by Robert S. Broadhead
Contributions by Diana Dull
Contributions by Stephen L. Fielding
Contributions by Samuel R. Friedman
Contributions by Josh Gamson
Contributions by Herb Haines
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
9th September 2003
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Health systems and services
Social and ethical issues
Social welfare, social policy and social services
362.1042
Physical Properties
Paperback
376
Width 177mm, Height 258mm, Spine 18mm
644g
Description
This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author Bio
Peter Conrad is Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University. His major research interests are in health and illness, social problems, and deviance. He served as president of the SSSP during 1996-97. He is currently completing a book on "the medicalization of society."
Valerie Leiter is assistant professor of sociology at Simmons College. Her work focuses on disability, sociology of childhood, and family sociology. Currently, her research examines children's access to health care, and formal and familial systems of care for children with disabilities.
