A HANDBOOK ON SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH

This book presents the ground realities of health, illness, and disease in India. It extensively uses the conflict, functional, interactionist, and post-structuralist perspectives to explore the nuances and subtleties surrounding health care. The book covers issues such as: the development of sociology of health * social medicine and community health * social epidemiology * types and agents of disease * medicalization and medicalization * medical pluralism * Determinants and indicators of health * occupational health * nutrition, food, and Water * sanitation and Environment * health policies and programs * inequality and inequity. The book will be useful for students of sociology, social Work, community medicine, public health, anthropology, medical Geography, and nursing. It will also benefit health practitioners, activists and, above all, policy makers and health managers.