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UNINA9910799981103321 |
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Titolo |
Modernity, medicine, and health : medical sociology towards 2000 / / edited by Graham Scambler and Paul Higgs |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-82428-9 |
1-134-82429-7 |
1-280-13875-0 |
9786610138753 |
0-203-98065-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social medicine |
Postmodernism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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