Download or read book Health, Illness, and Society written by Steven E. Barkan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging text provides a sociological perspective on health, illness, and health care. Serving as an introduction to medical sociology for undergraduate and graduate students, it also presents a summary of the field for medical sociologists and for public health scholars and practitioners. A highlight of the text is its emphasis on the social roots of health and disease and on the impact of social inequality on health disparities and the quality of health care. The book also critically examines health care in the United States and around the world and evaluates the achievements and limitations of the Affordable Care Act and other recent health care reform efforts.