Medical sociology is the study of individual and group behaviors with respect to health and illness. The focus is not only on medical professionals or their behaviors, but also focuses on human behavioral responses to health and illness. Medical sociology is concerned with individual and group responses aimed at assessing well-being, maintaining health, acting upon real or perceived illness, interacting with health care systems, and maximizing health in the face of physiologic or functional derangement. It also analyzes the impact of the psychological conditions resulting from our environment on our health.
More information Curriculum vitae Additional online resource Personal website Biography Research Interest Statement: Engelman’s research combines perspectives from the social sciences and public health to examine the social determinants of health and longevity. She is particularly interested in how social stratification (by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, nativity, and geography) manifests in health and mortality inequities. Engelman is the …
Biography Education: Ph.D., UW–Madison, 2014 Departmental areas of interest: Gender; Social Psychology and Microsociology; Science and Technology; Medical Sociology; Deviance, Law, and Social Control
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies, co-director of EdSHARe (Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research, an umbrella that includes the national cohort studies High School and Beyond and the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972) and Co-Director of the Madison Education Partnership, a research-practice partnership between the …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Research Interest Statement: My research examines disparities in mental, physical, and material well-being. I am interested in both how these inequalities are influenced by macrosocial forces (including economic and political institutions), as well as how they are generated in proximate contexts via the interplay of biological …
Additional Online Resource Alternate Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: Kelly Marie Ward is an Assistant Professor in the Gender & Women’s Studies and Sociology departments at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She studies the organizational features of abortion and reproductive healthcare with an emphasis on low status workers. She has published in the Journal of …