Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada
Description
This new edition of this thorough and well-received study of the sociology of health, illness, and medicine has been expanded and completely revised. It includes up-to-date findings on how people try to stay healthy and how they respond to illnesses of varying degrees. The book features new chapters on nursing and midwifery and on complementary and alternative medicine and now includes over 100 tables and figures, as well as numerous vignettes on such topics as medical technologies, pioneers in medicine, epidemics, environmental disasters, and the history of medicine. Canada's healt...
ISBN(s)
0195415523, 9780195415520
