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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

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Sociology of health --- Community organization

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This title integrates the conceptual, empirical and evidence-based threads of mental health as an area of study research and practice. It approaches mental health from two perspectives - firstly as a positive state of well-being and secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context.

Mental health. --- Mental health --- Social aspects. --- Mental illness

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Egocentric network analysis is used widely across the social sciences, especially in anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology, and is increasingly being employed in communications, informatics, and business and marketing studies. Egocentric network analysis requires a unique set of data collection and analysis skills that overlap only minimally with other network methodologies. However, until now there has been no single reference for conceptualizing, collecting, and analyzing egocentric social network data. This comprehensive guide to study design, data collection, and analysis brings together the state of knowledge with the most effective research tools to guide newcomers to this field. It is illustrated with many engaging examples and graphics and assumes no prior knowledge. Covering the entire research process in a logical sequence, from conceptualizing research questions to interpreting findings, this volume provides a solid foundation for researchers at any stage of their career to learn and apply ego network methods.

Quantitative methods in social research --- Social sciences --- Social networks --- Online Social Networking --- Health Information Management --- Network analysis --- Research --- Methodology --- statistics & numerical data --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Network analysis (Social sciences) --- SNA (Social network analysis) --- Social network analysis --- System analysis --- Network analysis. --- Methodology.

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"Network analysis is ubiquitous. In recent years, it has shaped how researchers and society as a whole understand issues as diverse as the spread of disease, the precursors of loneliness, the rise of protest movements, the causes of social inequality, the flows of air traffic, the rise of social media, and much more (Wasserman and Faust 1994; Barabasi 2002; Christakis and Fowler 2009; Watts and Strogatz 1998; Watts 1999). This influence is due to the remarkable flexibility and power of network analysis. A network is simply a set of nodes and the ties between them, and a node can be anything-an individual, an organization, a website, a computer server, an airport, a nation, or any entity with the capacity to connect in any fashion to another entity. The ability to think of any relationship in network terms has proved remarkably generative for researchers"--

Social sciences --- Social networks. --- System Analysis. --- Methodology. --- Social psychology --- Primary groups --- Social sciences - Methodology.