The Social Causes of Health and Disease
The Social Causes of Health and Disease This stimulating book has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. As the field…
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The Social Causes of Health and Disease
This stimulating book has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. As the field has headed toward a fundamentally different orientation, William Cockerham's work has been at the forefront of these changes, and he here marshals evidence and theory for those seeking a clear and authoritative guide to the realities of the social determinants of health. This extensively revised and updated third edition offers the most compelling case yet that stress, poverty, unhealthy lifestyles, and unpleasant living and work conditions can all be directly associated with illness.The book continues to build on the paradigm shift that has been emerging in twenty-first-century medical sociology which looks beyond individual explanations for health and disease.
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