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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799981103321

Titolo

Modernity, medicine, and health : medical sociology towards 2000 / / edited by Graham Scambler and Paul Higgs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-82428-9

1-134-82429-7

1-280-13875-0

9786610138753

0-203-98065-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ScamblerGraham

HiggsPaul

Disciplina

306.4/61

Soggetti

Social medicine

Postmodernism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Chapter 1 Postmodernity and health; Chapter 2 The promise of postmodernism for the sociology of health and medicine; Chapter 3 Medical sociology and modernity; Chapter 4 Issues at the interface of medical sociology and public health; Chapter 5 Explaining health inequalities; Chapter 6 Gender, health and the feminist debate on postmodernism; Chapter 7 In search of the 'missing body'; Chapter 8 Ageing, the lifecourse and the sociology of embodiment

Chapter 9 Risk, governmentality and the reconceptualization of citizenshipChapter 10 Medicine and complementary medicine; Chapter 11 Postmodern adventures of life and death; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

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.