| Table of Contents Click on Chapter Numbers to view Chapter Summaries, and Author names to view Biogaphies | |
Introduction and History of Medical Sociology | |
| Chapter 1 | Medical Sociology at the Millennium |
| by Chloe E. Bird, Peter Conrad, and Allen M. Fremont | |
| Chapter 2 | The Institutionalization of Medical Sociology in the United States, 1920-1980 |
| by Samuel Bloom | |
Social Context of Health and Illness | |
| Chapter 3 | Evaluating the Fundamental Cause Explanation for Social Disparities in Health |
| by Bruce G. Link and Jo C. Phelan | |
| Chapter 4 | Links between Social Status and Health Status |
| by John Mirowsky, Catherine E. Ross, and John Reynolds | |
| Chapter 5 | The Importance of Culture in Sociological Theory and Research on Stress and Mental Health: A Missing Link? |
| by Robin W. Simon | |
| Chapter 6 | Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: An Enduring Sociological Problem |
| by Stephanie A. Robert and James S. House | |
| Chapter 7 | Sociological Explanations of Gender Differences in Mental and Physical Health |
| by Patricia P. Rieker and Chloe E. Bird | |
| Chapter 8 | Race, Ethnicity, and Health |
| by Chris Smaje | |
| Chapter 9 | Political Economy of Health and Aging |
| by Carroll L Estes, Steven Wallace, and Karen W. Linkins | |
| Chapter 10 | Environment and Health |
| by Phil Brown | |
Health and Illness Behavior and Experience | |
| Chapter 11 | The Sociology of Health Behavior and Health Lifestyles |
| by William C. Cockerham | |
| Chapter 12 | On Chronic Illness and Disability |
| by Michael Bury | |
| Chapter 13 | Experiencing Illness in/and Narrative |
| by Susan E. Bell | |
Organization of Health Services | |
| Chapter 14 | The Medical Profession and Organization Change: From Professional Dominance to Countervailing Power |
| by Donald W. Light | |
| Chapter 15 | Tides of Change: The Evolution of Managed Care in the United States |
| by Douglas R. Wholey and Lawton R. Burns | |
| Chapter 16 | Reconfiguring the Sociology of Medical Education: Emerging Topics and Pressing Issues |
| by Frederic W. Hafferty | |
| Chapter 17 | The Evolving Relationship Between Medical Sociology and Health Policy |
| by Bradford H. Gray and James O'Leary | |
Medical Care | |
| Chapter 18 | Changing Patient-Physician Relationships in the Changing Health-Policy Environment |
| by Howard Waitzin | |
| Chapter 19 | The Growing Acceptance of Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
| by Michael S. Goldstein | |
| Chapter 20 | Quality of Life in Health, Illness, and Medical Care |
| by Debra Lerner and Carolyn E. Schwartz | |
| Chapter 21 | Technology and Medical Practice |
| by Stefan Timmermans | |
| Chapter 22 | Medicalization, Genetics, and Human Problems |
| by Peter Conrad | |
Areas of Collaboration and Future Directions for Medical Sociology | |
| Chapter 23 | Social and Psychological Factors, Physiological Processes, and Physical Health |
| by Allen Fremont and Chloe E. Bird | |
| Chapter 24 | Medical Sociology and Health Psychology |
| by Debra Umberson, Kristi Williams, and Susan Sharp | |
| Chapter 25 | Social Epidemiology and Medical Sociology: Different Approaches to the Same Problem |
| by S. Leonard Syme and Irene H. Yen | |
| Chapter 26 | "Parallel Sisters": Medical Anthropology and Medical Sociology |
| by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Byron Good | |
| Chapter 27 | The Sociology of Health in Developing Countries |
| by Eugene B. Gallagher, Thomas J. Stewart, and Terry D. Stratton | |
| Chapter 28 | The Sociological Imagination and Bioethics |
| by Charles L. Bosk | |
| Chapter 29 | Confronting the Second Social Contract: The Place of Medical Sociology in Research and Policy for the Twenty -First Century |
| by Bernice A. Pescosolido, Jane McLeod, and Margarita Alegria | |