TY - BOOK AU - Barkan,Steven E. TI - Health, illness, and society: an introduction to medical sociology SN - 9781442234994 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - RA418 .B34 2017 U1 - 362.1 23 PY - 2017/// KW - Delivery of Health Care KW - Sociological Factors N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-271) and index; Sociology and the study of health and health care -- A social history of health and medicine -- Health behavior -- Illness behavior and the illness experience -- Social causes of health and health problems -- Global disparities in health and disease -- Medical school and the training of physicians -- Physicians and their interaction with patients -- Other health care providers : conventional and alternative -- Hospitals and other health care settings -- Health and health care in the world's wealthy democracies -- The U.S. health care system -- Health care reform : Obamacare and beyond ER -