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Text has writing/highlighting Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology &
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Text has writing/highlighting Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Culture; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0130999288. ISBN/EAN: 9780130999283. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560745533.
Never used...Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2.
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Never used...Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Sociology & Culture; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0130999288. ISBN/EAN: 9780130999283. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560729549.
Description:
Designed to reflect important changes in health care and significant advancements in medical sociology, this student-friendly text provides a readable, interesting, and in-depth overview of the field. It offers solid coverage of traditional topics with a keen focus on the current issues and public policy debates affecting this dynamic area of study.
Coverage examines issues such as giving clean needles to drug users; gender-based and sexual harassment of female physicians; legalizing medical marijuana; the dumping of patients by hospitals; medicine and the Internet; the profession of medicine; socialization of physicians; illness behavior; AIDS and Alzheimer's disease; social stress; health behaviors; alternative healers and alternative healing practices; the physician-patient relationship; the history of medicine; the role of technology in health care; changes in the health care system; health care financing; for-profit medicine; managed care programs; doctor-assisted suicide; organ donation policy; surrogate motherhood; physician truth-telling and confidentiality; the obligation to treat AIDS patients; recruiting physicians to underserved areas; the responsibility of parents for health care for their children; and the responsibility of employers for employee-related stress.
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Text has writing/highlighting Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology &
[...]
Text has writing/highlighting Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Culture; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0130999288. ISBN/EAN: 9780130999283. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560745533.
Text has writing/highlighting Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology &
[...]
Text has writing/highlighting Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Culture; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0130999288. ISBN/EAN: 9780130999283. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560745533.
Never used...Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2.
[...]
Never used...Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Sociology & Culture; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0130999288. ISBN/EAN: 9780130999283. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560729549.
Never used...Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2.
[...]
Never used...Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Sociology & Culture; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0130999288. ISBN/EAN: 9780130999283. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560729549.