Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada explores the theories and issues of health and medical sociology from a Canadian perspective. The eighth edition has been revised and updated, while continuing to offer students an engaging, accessible, and authoritative introduction to the field. Balancing theoretical and practical concerns, the text provides a foundation to the field of health sociology with coverage of the major sociological approaches before moving on to discuss key issues impacting Canadians, such as societal inequality, culture, disease, and death. Coverage of feminist and critical race theory has also been added throughout in order to highlight this important aspect of the discipline. Current, Canadian, and comprehensive, the new eighth edition of Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada is essential reading for students in health and medical sociology courses taught at the second-year, third-year, and occasionally at the fourth-year level at universities and colleges across the country.