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Price: $81.95

Format:
Paperback 446 pp.
64 figures, 70 tables, 105 boxes, 7" x 9"

ISBN-10:
0195428420

ISBN-13:
9780195428421

Copyright Year:
2008

Imprint: OUP Canada

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Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada

Fifth Edition

Dr. Juanne Nancarrow Clarke

A well-written, student friendly text, Health, Illness and Medicine in Canada provides students with insight into the issues surrounding the sociology of health, illness and medicine in Canada. Part one addresses the major sociological approaches of structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism, feminist theory, and conflict theory. Part two shifts focus to more immediate issues relating to sociology of health and medicine - social inequity, disease, and death, while taking a first-hand look at the experience of being ill. This section also features a unique case study on women and cancer. Part three of the text is devoted to the sociology of medicine, and takes an extensive look at pertinent issues such as social constructs of scientific and medical knowledge and medical practice, medicalization, the medical profession, the roles of nurses and midwives in a changing health-care system, complementary and alternative medicine, and the medical-industrial complex.

Readership : Introductory text for sociology of health and illness, taught at the second- or third-year level in universities across Canada.

Reviews

  • "The case studies, examples, questions that begin each chapter, moments when the author speaks personally - all go a considerable distance to capture attention and imagination, and offer the kind of concrete 'ways in' to broader topics that many students need".

    --Chris Sinding, McMaster

Part I: Sociological Perspectives
1. Ways of Thinking Sociologically about Health, Illness, and Medicine
2. Ways of Studying Health, Illness, and Medicine Sociologically
Part II: Sociology of Health and Illness
3. Disease and Death: Canada in International and Historical Context
4. Environmental and Occupational Health and Illness
5. Social Inequity, Disease, and Death: The Social Determinants of Health
6. Social Inequity, Disease, and Death in Canada: Age, Gender, Racialization and Ethnicity
7. Some Social-Psychological Explanations for Illness
8. The Experience of Being Ill
Part III: Sociology of Medicine
9. The Social Construction of Scientific and Medical Knowledge and Medical Practice
10. Medicalization: The Medical-Moral Mix
11. Medical Practitioners, Medicare, and the State
12. The Medical Profession
13. Nurses and Midwives in the Changing Health-Care System
14. Complementary and Alternative Medicine
15. The Medical-Industrial Complex

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Dr. Juanne Nancarrow Clarke is a professor of sociology in the Sociology and Anthropology department at Wilfrid Laurier University. She earned her PhD from Waterloo. As a medical sociologist, Dr. Clarke has spent her career exploring the public health system and the personal health systems of individuals. Her research interests include health and illness, gender and medicine, as well as qualitative and feminist methodologies.
Since joining Wilfrid Laurier in 1971, Dr. Clarke has taught a number of courses such as, Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of Medicine, Sociology of Sex Roles, and Sociology of Health and Illness. She has a substantial list of publications, including books and book chapters, articles in refereed journals, reports, book reviews and papers read at learned societies. She is writing a chapter for our upcoming introductory sociology book, The Social World.

Understanding Health, Health Care, and Health Policy In Canada - Neena L. Chappell and Margaret J. Penning
Introducing Sociology - Murray Knuttila
Social Problems - Lorne Tepperman, James Curtis and Albert Kwan
Aging as a Social Process - Barry McPherson
Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese

Special Features

  • Comprehensive Overview into issues such as occupational diseases, environmental challenges, social determinants of health, First Nation's health, inequalities of age, gender, 'race', class, and immigrant studies provide students with a solid foundation into the many issues and debates in health care today.
  • Practical Information. Along with in-depth coverage of sociological viewpoints and wealth of Canadian content, the text also ensures students are familiar with the practical applications of sociology by examining the theory and methods associated with sociological practice.
  • Historical Context. Discussion of the Canadian Medicare system and its development, lends a historical context to examination of Canadian health and medicine.
  • Up-to-Date Information. Health and Illness in Canada provides students with current, contemporary information through the inclusion of relevant material and newly updated tables and charts.
  • Extensive Visual Program. Over 200 pictures, tables, and vignettes bring material alive, engaging students and appealing to visual learners.
New to this Edition
  • NEW! Additional content on gender, class, 'race', and ethnicity.
  • NEW! Expanded treatment of inequality included throughout.
  • NEW! Increased coverage of First Nations' health and healthcare.
  • NEW! Extensive art program includes over 200 new and updated figures, tables, and vignettes.
  • NEW! Discussion of privatization of health care, the role of public care, and the affects of each on health policy.
  • NEW! Historical development of the Canadian Medicare System is contextualized and addressed.
  • NEW! Unique coverage of topics not commonly featured in other texts, including mental health and cultural competence issues.