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Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada

by (author) Juanne Clarke

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2004
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195419016
    Publish Date
    Mar 2004
    List Price
    $69.50

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Description

Using four different sociological perspectives--structural-funcational, conflict, symbolic interactionist, and feminist--Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada 4e provides an essential study to the sociology of health. The text examines occupational diseases, environmental challenges, theinequalities of age, gender, class, race, and ethnicity, the experience of getting sick and going to the doctor, and the extensive and profit-motivated impact of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Juanne Clarke is in the Department of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University.