The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society

William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor and Chairof Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Hispublications include Social Causes of Health and Disease, SecondEdition (2013), Medical Sociology, 12th edition(2012), and The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology ofMedicine (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist and part-timeProfessor at Nottingham Trent University. He has published widelyon research in medicine, law, and science and technology and is aformer editor ofSociology of Health and Illness. Stella Quah is Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the Duke-NUSGraduate Medical School. She is author and editor of several booksincluding Crisis Preparedness: Asia and the Global Governanceof Epidemics (2007), Families in Asia: Home andKin (2009), and International Encyclopedia of PublicHealth (co-edited with Harald Kristian Heggenhougen, 2008).