Talk:Bibliography of sociology/Sandbox

Medicine

Medical sociology is the sociological analysis of medical organizations and institutions.

• Parsons, Talcott (1997) [1951]. The social system. With a new preface by Bryan S. Turner (Reprint of the new ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415060554.

In a description of the patient's role in the doctor-patient relationship, Parsons coined the term the 'Sick Role' as opposed to the 'Social Role'. Talcott Parsons is considered the father of Medical Sociology (with Rene Fox as the mother).

• Freidson, Eliot (1988) [1970]. Profession of medicine : a study of the sociology of applied knowledge. With a new afterword by the author (University of Chicago Press ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226262284.

• Freidson, Eliot (2007) [1970]. Professional dominance : the social structure of medical care (1st paperback ed.). New Brunswick, N.J.: Aldine Transaction. ISBN 9780202308555.

• Gerhardt, Uta (1989). Ideas about illness : an intellectual and political history of medical sociology. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814730263.

Re-analyzed Parsons' work, and made the 'Sick Role' famous.

• Petersen, Alan; Bunton, Robin, eds. (1997). Foucault, health and medicine. Foreword by Bryan S. Turner (Online ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415151788.

Assesses the profound impact of Foucault's work and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his work.

• Freidson, Eliot (2000). Professionalism, the third logic : on the practice of knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226262031.

• Kelner, Merrijoy; Wellman, Beverly; Pescosolido, Bernice; Saks, Mike, eds. (2000). Complementary and alternative medicine : challenge and change. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789058230980.

An edited book of original articles that is the first comprehensive sociological analysis of the practitioners, users and social organization of the growing area of complementary and alternative medicine, such as chiropractic, naturopathy, homeopathy, Alexander Technique, etc.

• Williams, Simon J.; Birke, Lynda; Bendelow, Gillian, eds. (2003). Debating biology : sociological reflections on health, medicine, and society (1 ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415279024.

Takes a look at the relationship between biology and society in the arena of health and medicine. Discusses the interplay between biological and social factors in the patterning of health and illness. Addresses the relationships between biology, science, and technology. For students and researchers in the social sciences.

• Brown, Phil (2008). Perspectives in medical sociology (4th ed.). Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press. ISBN 9781577665182.

• Cockerham, William C. (2010). Medical sociology (11th ed.). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780136053101.

The standard reference in the field—in the US—this best-selling introduction to medical sociology presents the most recent and relevant ideas, concepts, themes, issues, debates, and research findings at the cutting-edge of the field. It contains first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers; is based on a worldwide review of the literature but mainly focuses on the US; provides the most recent US health statistics, data, and American studies available.