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Modernity, Medicine and Health

Editat de Paul Higgs, Graham Scambler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 apr 1998
This book establishes the voice of medical sociology in key debates in the social sciences. Concerning modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism issues covered include:
* disease and medicine in postmodern times
* gender, health and the feminist debate on the postmodern
* ageing, the lifecourse and the sociology of health and ageing
* medicine and complementary medicine
* death in postmodernity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415149396
ISBN-10: 0415149398
Pagini: 262
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Graham Scambler is Reader in Sociology and Director of the Unit of Medical Sociology at University College London. Paul Higgs is Lecturer in Medical Sociology also at University College London.

Cuprins

List of contributors, Introduction, 1 Postmodernity and health, 2 The promise of postmodernism for the sociology of health and medicine, 3 Medical sociology and modernity: reflections on the public sphere and the roles of intellectuals and social critics, 4 Issues at the interface of medical sociology and public health, 5 Explaining health inequalities: how useful are concepts of social class?, 6 Gender, health and the feminist debate on postmodernism, 7 In search of the ‘missing body’: pain, suffering and the (post) modern condition, 8 Ageing, the lifecourse and the sociology of embodiment, 9 Risk, governmentality and the reconceptualization of citizenship, 10 Medicine and complementary medicine: challenge and change, 11 Postmodern adventures of life and death, Index

Descriere

An opportunity for medical sociology to establish a voice in the key debates in social science today: modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism. Essential reading for students of the sociology of medicine, health and illness.