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The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry. The editors provide a blueprint for guiding research and teaching agendas for the first quarter of the 21st century. In a series of essays, this volume offers a systematic view of the critical questions that face our understanding of the role of social forces in health, illness and healing. It also provides an overall theoretical framework and asks medical sociologists to consider the implications of taking on new directions and approaches. Such issues may include the importance of multiple levels of influences, the utility of dynamic, life course approaches, the role of culture, the impact of social networks, the importance of fundamental causes approaches, and the influences of state structures and policy making.

Healing -- Social aspects. --- Public health. --- Social medicine. --- Social medicine --- Healing --- Public health --- Health Occupations --- Sociology --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Social Sciences --- Behavioral Sciences --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Sociology, Medical --- Public Health --- Sociology & Social History --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Social Change --- Social Medicine --- Social aspects --- Health. --- Healing. --- Curing (Medicine) --- Personal health --- Wellness --- Social sciences. --- Sociology. --- Social Sciences. --- Sociology, general. --- Public Health. --- Therapeutics --- Medicine --- Physiology --- Diseases --- Holistic medicine --- Hygiene --- Well-being --- Social aspects. --- Medical care --- Medical sociology --- Medicine, Social --- Public welfare --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Social theory --- Social sciences