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| The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach |  | Author: Rose Weitz
Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 957,318
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1
ISBN: 0534247563
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.461
EAN: 9780534247560
ASIN: 0534247563
Publication Date: July 11, 2000
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Must Have Text for Social Disparities In Illness September 29, 2007
Jonathan C. Anthony
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have to believe that this is the number one text in studying the field of Medical Sociology that exists in the market. It gives a comprehensive and thorough view of the health care system, with particular reference to the USA. It's viewpoint is that disease, a biological condition, and illness, how society reacts to disease is a social construction. This book takes aim at how society as a whole victimizes and discriminates against the disabled and ill, based upon subjective prejudices. It pays close attention to gender, race, age, and socio-economic status and how those interweaved factors, play into the fate of an indivduals health over a life time. Very easy to read, and the authors knowledge on the topic is superb. I would recommend this text to anyone in the health care industry.
 Interesting text March 29, 2007
Following my Bliss (Chicago)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm glad to have had the opportunity to read this text. I appreciate the organization of the text and found it to be a very interesting and informative read.
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