Illness is more than just biological. Medical sociology shows how social factors get under the skin and cause disease

Health and medicine is more than just biological—societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical sociologists like me study these forces by treating society itself as our laboratory. Health and illness are our experiments in uncovering meaning, power and inequality, and how it affects all parts of a person’s life.

This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

You may also be interested in:

Read More:

Lawyers Lookup