Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2004
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780195419016
- Publish Date
- Mar 2004
- List Price
- $69.50
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Description
Using four different sociological perspectives--structural-funcational, conflict, symbolic interactionist, and feminist--Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada 4e provides an essential study to the sociology of health. The text examines occupational diseases, environmental challenges, theinequalities of age, gender, class, race, and ethnicity, the experience of getting sick and going to the doctor, and the extensive and profit-motivated impact of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Juanne Clarke is in the Department of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University.