Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing: A Blueprint for the 21st Century (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research)

The __Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing__ advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry. The editors provide a blueprint for guiding research and teaching agendas for the first quarter of the 21^st^ century. In a series of essays, this volume offers a systematic view of the critical questions that face our understanding of the role of social forces in health, illness and healing. It also provides an overall theoretical framework and asks medical sociologists to consider the implications of taking on new directions and approaches. Such issues may include the importance of multiple levels of influences, the utility of dynamic, life course approaches, the role of culture, the impact of social networks, the importance of fundamental causes approaches, and the influences of state structures and policy making. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Taking “The Promise” Seriously: Medical Sociology’s Role in Health, Illness, and Healing in a Time of Social Change....Pages 3-20 Medical Sociology and Its Relationship to Other Disciplines: The Case of Mental Health and the Ambivalent Relationship Between Sociology and Psychiatry....Pages 21-37 Organizing the Sociological Landscape for the Next Decades of Health and Health Care Research: The Network Episode Model III-R as Cartographic Subfield Guide....Pages 39-66 Fundamental Causality: Challenges of an Animating Concept for Medical Sociology....Pages 67-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 Learning from Other Countries: Comparing Experiences and Drawing Lessons for the United States....Pages 85-99 Health and the Social Rights of Citizenship: Integrating Welfare-State Theory and Medical Sociology....Pages 101-115 Health Social Movements: Advancing Traditional Medical Sociology Concepts....Pages 117-137 Layering Control: Medicalization, Psychopathy, and the Increasing Multi-institutional Management of Social Problems....Pages 139-158 Community Systems Collide and Cooperate: Control of Deviance by the Legal and Mental Health Systems....Pages 159-170 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 Medicalization and Biomedicalization Revisited: Technoscience and Transformations of Health, Illness and American Medicine....Pages 173-199 Two Cultures: Two Ships: The Rise of a Professionalism Movement Within Modern Medicine and Medical Sociology’s Disappearance from the Professionalism Debate....Pages 201-219 Medicine as a Family-Friendly Profession?....Pages 221-253 Clash of Logics, Crisis of Trust: Entering the Era of Public For-Profit Health Care?....Pages 255-270 Health Care Policy and Medical Sociology....Pages 271-288 Front Matter....Pages 289-289 The Consumer Turn in Medicalization: Future Directions with Historical FoundationsFuture Directions with Historical Foundations....Pages 291-307 Mundane Medicine, Therapeutic Relationships, and the Clinical Encounter: Current and Future Agendas for Sociology....Pages 309-322 After 30 Years, Problems and Prospects in the Study of Doctor–Patient Interaction....Pages 323-342 Enter Health Information Technology: Expanding Theories of the Doctor–Patient Relationship for the Twenty-First Century Health Care Delivery System....Pages 343-359 Front Matter....Pages 361-361 Culture, Race/Ethnicity and Disparities: Fleshing Out the Socio-Cultural Framework for Health Services Disparities....Pages 363-382 Health Disparities and the Black Middle Class: Overview, Empirical Findings, and Research Agenda....Pages 383-410 Front Matter....Pages 361-361 Gender and Health Revisited....Pages 411-429 Hearsay Ethnography: A Method for Learning About Responses to Health Interventions....Pages 431-445 Front Matter....Pages 447-447 Life Course Approaches to Health, Illness and Healing....Pages 449-464 The Complexities of Help-Seeking: Exploring Challenges Through a Social Network Perspective....Pages 465-479 Front Matter....Pages 481-481 Bodies in Context: Potential Avenues of Inquiry for the Sociology of Chronic Illness and Disability Within a New Policy Era....Pages 483-504 Identity and Illness....Pages 505-525 Learning to Love Animal (Models) (or) How (Not) to Study Genes as a Social Scientist....Pages 527-542 Taking the Medical Sciences Seriously: Why and How Medical Sociology Should Incorporate Diverse Disciplinary Perspectives....Pages 543-562 Back Matter....Pages 563-571 "The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry. The editors provide a blueprint for guiding research and teaching agendas for the first quarter of the 21st century. In a series of essays, this volume offers a systematic view of the critical questions that face our understanding of the role of social forces in health, illness and healing. It also provides an overall theoretical framework and asks medical sociologists to consider the implications of taking on new directions and approaches. Such issues may include the importance of multiple levels of influences, the utility of dynamic, life course approaches, the role of culture, the impact of social networks, the importance of fundamental causes approaches, and the influences of state structures and policy making"--Provided by publisher The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry. The editors provide a blueprint for guiding research and teaching agendas for the first quarter of the 21 st century. In a series of essays, this volume offers a systematic view of the critical questions that face our understanding of the role of social forces in health, illness and healing. It also provides an overall theoretical framework and asks medical sociologists to consider the implications of taking on new directions and approaches. Such issues may include the importance of multiple levels of influences, the utility of dynamic, life course approaches, the role of culture, the impact of social networks, the importance of fundamental causes approaches, and the influences of state structures and policy making.