Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing: A Blueprint for the 21st Century

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