A new edition of a seminal sociology of health textbook which offers an up-to-date, concise and theoretically and empirically informed introduction to the core topics in the sociology of health and health care.

Graham Scambler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UCL, UK

Table of Contents
Introduction
Graham Scambler

PART I: SOCIAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE
1. Society and Changing Patterns of Health and Disease
Ray Fitzpatrick and Ewen Speed
2. Social Determinants of Health and Disease
Fiona Stevenson
3. Globalisation and Health
Judy Green

PART II: SOCIAL FACTORS IN MEDICAL PRACTICE
4. Health and Illness Behaviour
Fiona Stevenson
5. The Doctor-Patient Relationship
Myfanwy Morgan
6. Living with Long-Term Illness and Disability
Sasha Scambler
7. Dying, Death and Bereavement
Graham Scambler

PART III: SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND HEALTH
8. Social Class and Health Inequalities
Graham Scambler
9. Gender and Health
Annette Scambler & Sasha Scambler
10. Ethnicity and Health
James Nazroo & Moira Kelly
11. Later Life, Health and Society
Paul Higgs

PART IV: CHANGING FORMS OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE
12. Deviance, Sigma and Social Control
Graham Scambler
13. The Shifting Boundaries of Medical Knowledge
Paul Higgs
14. Reconceptualising Bodies
Nick Fox
15. Digital Health and Health Care
Deborah Lupton.

PART V: ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH SERVICES
16. Health Care Systems
Nicholas Mays
17. Healers and Health Professionals
Iain Crinson
18. Public Health and Health Promotion
Judy Green
19. Measuring Health Outcomes
Ray Fitzpatrick
20. Assessing Health Care System Performance
Nicholas Mays and Ray Fitzpatrick.