| Description |
ix, 588 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Implications of recent changes in infant mortality / Marie C. McCormick -- Teenage childbearing : causes, consequences, and remedies / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Health problems and policy issues of old age / Carroll L. Estes and Philip R. Lee -- The detection and modification of psychosocial and behavioral risk factors / Stanislav V. Kasl -- Health and the workplace / James S. House and Eric M. Cottington -- Coping and social supports : their functions and applications / Leonard I. Pearlin and Carol S. Aneshensel -- Patient-practitioner relationships and compliance with prescribed medical regimens / Bonnie L. Svarstad -- Professional responsibility and medical error / Charles L. Bosk |
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Payment systems and their effects / William A. Glaser -- Economic incentives and constraints in clinical practice / Harold S. Luft -- Surplus versus cost containment : the changing context for health providers / Donald W. Light -- Ethical issues in a social context / Bradford H. Gray and Marian Osterweis |
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Social science, medicine, and health policy / David Mechanic and Linda H. Aiken -- Medicine, science, and technology / Renée C. Fox -- Social class, health, and illness / Diana B. Dutton -- The medical profession in transition / Eliot Freidson -- The changing hospital / Rosemary Stevens -- Two views of a changing health care system / Drew E. Altman -- Research and policy formulation / Karen Davis -- Cardiovascular disease / Adrian M. Ostfeld -- Cancer / James Marshall and Saxon Graham -- Mental illness / George W. Brown -- The assessment of health status / John E. Ware, Jr. -- Social experiments in health / Joseph P. Newhouse -- The management of reproduction : social construction of risk and responsibility / Catherine Kohler Riessman and Constance A. Nathanson |
| Notes |
Sponsored by the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Medical policy -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Medical policy -- Social aspects.
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Medical policy.
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Social medicine -- United States.
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Social medicine.
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Health Policy.
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Social Medicine.
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Sociology, Medical.
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| Author |
Aiken, Linda H.
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Mechanic, David, 1936-
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American Sociological Association. Medical Sociology Section.
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| LC no. |
85026251 |
| ISBN |
0813511488 |
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0813511496 (paperback) |
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