Health Illness and the Social Body

 

Welcome to the web-page for
Health, Illness and the Social Body: A Critical Sociology,
a text and essay about the Sociology of Health and Illness
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This web site is designed for use by instructors and students.

Instructors Students

Clicking on the button for Instructors will take you to a set of resources for teaching courses in the Sociology of Health and Illness.  These pages contain no password-protected information, because we want to share our teaching and research suggestions with all who are interested in the field.  Students are welcome to consult these pages, since they address the pedagogy and learning objectives around which the book is designed.  This website will be updated more regularly than the textbook itself, so we will be recommending new video and other media resources and suggested supplementary readings here, rather than in the text (where these resources were previously printed extensively).  We will also share various teaching exercises and group activities, such as exercises for teaching critical use of Web information and for teaching critical thinking about literature searches—all linked with the content of this course.

Clicking on the button for Students will take you to several resources for learning about Sociology of Health and Illness and applying its insights for understanding the health-related issues of your community, nation, and world.  We encourage both undergraduate and graduate students to explore the pages of Guide for Literature Searches.  There are many (too many!) sources of information available, so it has become increasingly imperative to search strategically for the best (and not just the easiest to find) reference sources. 

Each section of the site has “Useful Links” for both instructors and students.  These have been carefully selected, so our readers won’t feel overwhelmed by too much information. 

For most purposes, a good library is still the best place for further reading in this field.

All web content copyright © by Meredith B. McGuire.  Due to a computer-related injury, I cannot accept e-mail.  Course instructors should direct their inquiries to Prentice-Hall Publishing.