| Description |
x, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
A brief introduction to the sociology of health, healing, and illness -- The development of scientific medicine -- Social epidemiology -- Society, disease, and illness -- Social stress -- Health behavior -- Experiencing illness and disability -- Physicians and the profession of medicine -- Medical education and the socialization of physicians -- Nurses, mid-level health care practitioners, and allied health workers -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- The physician-patient relationship: background and models -- Professional and ethical obligations of physicians in the physician-patient relationship -- The health care system of the united states -- Health care delivery -- The social implications of advanced health care technology -- Comparative health care systems |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Social medicine -- United States.
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Medical ethics -- United States.
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Medical care -- United States.
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Sociology, Medical.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Delivery of Health Care.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
Lonnquist, Lynne E.
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| LC no. |
2005015563 |
| ISBN |
0131928406 |
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