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A sociology of health / Andrew C. Twaddle, Richard M. Hessler.
- Title
- A sociology of health / Andrew C. Twaddle, Richard M. Hessler.
- Author
- Twaddle, Andrew C., 1938-
- Publication
- New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | WA 31 T969s 1987 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hessler, Richard M.
- Description
- xix, 427 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-408) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Medicine and sociology -- Sociological viewpoints: the stance the discipline and this text -- Disease and death -- Illness and sickness -- Health, illness, and sickness as social identities -- Sickness career -- Types of healers -- Physician -- Nursing -- New health workers -- Professional-patient relationships -- Medical practice -- Hospitals as clinics -- Neighborhood health centers -- Health care system -- Medical ethics -- Toward a sociology of health -- American medicine: a diagnostic workup.
- ISBN
- 0024218707
- 9780024218704
- LCCN
- ^^^85021392^
- OCLC
- 12558070
- SCSB-14237319
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library