This brand new book, Medical Sociology, looks at the ongoing changes in the Health-Care industry and helps students to understand these changes within a global context. This comparative focus allows the student to see the application of medical sociology in not only the United States and the industrialized world, but in developing countries as well. It does this using a framework of the impact of race and ethnicity, social class, age, and gender on how medical sociology is applied (differentially) in the U.S. and worldwide.