Arguably, the most important problem at the intersection of sociology and epidemiology is
how to understand the pervasive positive relationship between various indicators of social …

The biomedical and public health sciences have established a clear warrant for their
existence. A warrant is a broadly shared justification for a research-based discipline (Katz …

In this exciting new book, William Cockerham, a leading medical sociologist, assesses the
evidence that social factors have direct causal effects on health and many diseases. He …

Understanding the Sociology of Health continues to offer an easy to read introduction to
sociological theories essential to understanding the current health climate. Up-to-date with …

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 …

When biomedical knowledge and technology create the capacity for humans to avoid
disease and circumvent early death, sociological factors become more, not less important for …

During the past two decades, the public health community's attention has been drawn
increasingly to the social determinants of health (SDH)—the factors apart from medical care …

The concept of social structure is one of the main building blocks of the social sciences, but it
lacks any precise technical definition within general sociological theory. This paper reviews …

Tensions are inevitable between funders seeking to solve specific health care issues within
existing frameworks and many social scientists who see health and health care as …

The 2010 special issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior, titled “Fifty Years of
Medical Sociology,” defined the contours of the medical sociological perspective. We use …