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William Cockerham, Ph.D.
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134 B Ullman Building |
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Department of Sociology |
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Birmingham, AL 35294-3350 |
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(205) 934-8679 |
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(205) 975-5614 |
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wcocker@uab.edu |
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University of California, Berkely
William C. Cockerham (Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley). Professor Cockerham specializes in the study of cross national or international aspects of health, with broader interests in the general field of medical sociology, aging, and the sociology of mental illness. He has completed a study of health lifestyles in Russia and Eastern Europe and is currently preparing manuscripts on a similar project in Japan. Additionally, he is author of a widely-adopted textbook on medical sociology.
Representative Publications
- Cockerham, William C. (1999). Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe. (London and New York: Routledge).
- Cockerham, William C. (1998). Medical Sociology, 7th Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall).
- Cockerham, William C. (1997). The Social Determinants of the Decline in Life Expectancy in Russia and Eastern Europe. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38:117-30.
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