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The new Blackwell companion to medical sociology
This is an authoritative, topical, and comprehensive reference to the key concepts and most important traditional and contemporary issues in medical sociology. The book contains 35 chapters by recognized experts in the field, both established and rising young scholars.
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The Wiley Blackwell companion to medical sociology
THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO Medical Sociology
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is an authoritative overview of the most recent research, major theoretical approaches, and central issues and debates within the field. Bringing together contributions from an international team of leading scholars, this wide-ranging volume summarizes significant new developments and discusses a broad range of globally-relevant topics. The Companion 's twenty-eight chapters contain timely, theoretically-informed coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and emerging diseases, bioethics, healthcare delivery systems, health disparities associated with migration, social class, gender, and race. It also explores mental health, the family, religion, and many other real-world health concerns.
The most up-to-date and comprehensive single-volume reference on the key concepts and contemporary issues in medical sociology, this book:
* Presents thematically-organized essays by authors who are recognized experts in their fields
* Features new chapters reflecting state-of-the-art research and contemporary issues relevant to global health
* Covers vital topics such as current bioethical debates and the global effort to cope with the coronavirus pandemic
* Discusses the important relationship between culture and health in a global context
* Provide fresh perspectives on the sociology of the body, biomedicalization, health lifestyle theory, doctor-patient relations, and social capital and health
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in medical sociology, health studies, and health care, as well as for academics, researchers, and practitioners wanting to keep pace with new developments in the field.
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The COVID-19 reader : the science and what it says about the social
\"This reader offers the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says for its spread and social implications. With carefully selected chapters for an introductory or graduate student readership by a distinguished medical sociology team, this reader is an essential teaching resource on COVID-19\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Health Lifestyle Theory and the Convergence of Agency and Structure
This article utilizes the agency-structure debate as a framework for constructing a health lifestyle theory. No such theory currently exists, yet the need for one is underscored by the fact that many daily lifestyle practices involve considerations of health outcomes. An individualist paradigm has influenced concepts of health lifestyles in several disciplines, but this approach neglects the structural dimensions of such lifestyles and has limited applicability to the empirical world. The direction of this article is to present a theory of health lifestyles that includes considerations of both agency and structure, with an emphasis upon restoring structure to its appropriate position. The article begins by defining agency and structure, followed by presentation of a health lifestyle model and the theoretical and empirical studies that support it.
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Health lifestyles and the search for a concept of a gender-specific habitus
The purpose of this paper is to clarify what is meant by a gender-specific habitus which is a useful theoretical concept for analyzing health-related dispositions on the part of women and men. However, there is very little information on the notion of a generic female or male habitus. Bourdieu, who advanced the concept of habitus more than any other theorist in sociology, mentions a female and male habitus, but provides no definition, details, or descriptions. Consequently, in studies of health dispositions primarily applicable to women or men, there is no clear concept of a habitus specific to either gender available to researchers. In this paper, an ideal-type approach was used to construct male and female models of a gender-specific habitus for comparative purposes. While pure forms of either may not exist in reality nor apply to all men or women, they nevertheless serve as an ideal type to judge variance in the health-related dispositions generated by a gender-specific habitus. They provide a baseline reference for a gendered habitus in the absence to date of any other existing models.
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The new Blackwell companion to medical sociology
An authoritative, topical, and comprehensive reference to the key concepts and most important traditional and contemporary issues in medical sociology. Contains 35 chapters by recognized experts in the field, both established and rising young scholars Covers standard topics in the field as well as new and engaging issues such as bioterrorism, bioethics, and infectious disease Chapters are thematically arranged to cover the major issues of the sub-discipline Global range of contributors and an international perspective
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Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe
For the first time, life expectancy is declining in an industrialized society. In this pioneering work, William C. Cockerham examines the social causes of the decline in life expectancy beginning in the 1960s including: *Russia *Poland *Hungary *Romania *Bulgaria *the Czech Republic *and East Germany. Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe argues that the roots of this change are mainly social rather than biomedical - the result of poor policy decisions, stress and an unhealthy diet. Cockerham presents a theory of postmodern social change that goes beyond the borders of Eastern Europe.
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Sociological theory in medical sociology in the early twenty-first century
This article examines current trends in theory in medical sociology and finds that the use of theory is flourishing. The central thesis is that the field has reached a mature state and is in the early stage of a paradigm shift away from a past focus on methodological individualism (in which the individual is the primary unit of analysis) toward a growing utilization of theories with a structural orientation This outcome is materially aided by research methods (for example, hierarchal linear modeling, biomarkers) providing measures of structural effects on the health of the individual that were often absent or underdeveloped in the past. Both quantitative and qualitative methods can be utilized in such research and qualitative studies based on symbolic interaction or social constructionism are not disqualified because of their methodologies and focus. Structure needs to be accounted for in any social endeavor and contemporary medical sociology appears to be doing precisely that as part of the next stage of its evolution.
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Political ideology and pandemic lifestyles: the indirect effects of empathy, authoritarianism, and threat
Background
In this paper, we integrate theory and research from sociology, psychology, and political science to develop and test a mediation model that helps to explain
why
political conservatism is often associated with pandemic behaviors and lifestyles that are inconsistent with public health recommendations for COVID-19.
Methods
Using national data from the 2021
Crime, Health, and Politics Survey
(n = 1743), we formally test the indirect effects of political conservatism (an index of Republican party identification, conservative political orientation, right-wing news media consumption, and 2020 Trump vote) on pandemic lifestyles (an index of social distancing, hand sanitizing, mask usage, and vaccination) through the mechanisms of empathy (concern about the welfare of others), authoritarian beliefs (authoritarian aggressiveness and acquiescence to authority), and pandemic threat perceptions (threats to self and to the broader society).
Result
Our results confirm that political conservatism is associated with riskier pandemic lifestyles. We also find that this association is partially mediated by lower levels of empathy, higher levels of authoritarian beliefs, and lower levels of perceived pandemic threat.
Conclusions
Understanding
why
political conservatism is associated with riskier pandemic lifestyles may eventually lead us to ways of identifying and overcoming widespread cultural barriers to critical pandemic responses.
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The sociology of health in the United States: recent theoretical contributions
This paper examines recent trends in theory in health sociology in the United States and finds that the use of theory is flourishing. The central thesis is that the field has reached a mature state and is in the early stage of a paradigm shift away from a past focus on methodological individualism (in which the individual is the primary unit of analysis) toward a growing utilization of theories with a structural orientation This outcome is materially aided by research methods (e.g. hierarchal linear modeling, biomarkers) providing measures of structural effects on the health of the individual that were often absent or underdeveloped in the past. Structure needs to be accounted for in any social endeavor and contemporary medical sociology appears to be doing precisely that as part of the next stage of its evolution. The recent contributions to theory in the sociology of health discussed in this paper are fundamental cause, medicalization, social capital, neighborhood disadvantage, and health lifestyle theories. O artigo analisa as tendências teóricas recentes da sociologia da saúde nos Estados Unidos e revela que o uso destas está florescendo. A tese central é que o campo atingiu a sua maturidade e está na fase inicial de uma mudança de paradigma de um foco anterior no individualismo metodológico (em que o indivíduo é a unidade primária de análise) em direção a uma crescente utilização de teorias com orientação estrutural. Este resultado é objetivamente auxiliado por métodos de pesquisa (por exemplo, a modelagem linear hierárquica, biomarcadores) que fornecem as medidas de efeitos estruturais sobre a saúde do indivíduo, que muitas vezes eram ausentes ou não desenvolvidos no passado. A orientação estrutural precisa ser considerada em qualquer empreendimento social e a sociologia médica contemporânea parece estar fazendo exatamente isso, como parte da próxima fase de sua evolução. As recentes contribuições à teoria da sociologia da saúde discutidas neste trabalho são as seguintes: causa fundamental, medicalização, capital social, desvantagens locais, e as teorias de estilo de vida em saúde.
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