Sociology and Community Health research can be very interdisciplinary. However, class H of the Library of Congress classification system (the organization system of Tisch's physical collections) is devoted to Social Sciences, of which Sociology is one. In addition, class R of the Library of Congress classification system is devoted to Medicine.
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Note: The Library of Congress classification and subject headings systems are large and complex systems subject to government approval, and as a result, sometimes the process to update the classifications and subject headings to their most current terms, especially those pertaining to race, gender, and sexuality, can be slow. Please feel free to ask a librarian more about how the classification and subject headings systems are structured, their biases, and current efforts to improve the terminology within them.
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Scholarly books, like articles, are written by experts for experts. However, unlike books that you might read for fun, you don't have to read a scholarly book cover to cover. Instead, it's best to treat scholarly books like anthologies of individual resources. So, it's ok if you only read one or two chapters.
You can still look do citation searching using the bibliographies of the individual chapters, but you may have to look for the whole book when doing "cited by" searching.