02970nam 2200625 a 450 991045192650332120220211181647.01-4462-3272-70-8039-7598-81-283-88083-01-4462-6418-1(CKB)2550000000103910(EBL)1023988(OCoLC)823717124(SSID)ssj0000657322(PQKBManifestationID)11430259(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000657322(PQKBWorkID)10656121(PQKB)11000169(MiAaPQ)EBC1023988(OCoLC)1007858063(StDuBDS)EDZ0000064010(Au-PeEL)EBL1023988(CaPaEBR)ebr10567167(CaONFJC)MIL419333(EXLCZ)99255000000010391020120327d1995 fy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMedical power and social knowledge[electronic resource] /Bryan S. Turner, with Colin Samson2nd ed.London SAGE19951 online resource (287 p.)Description based upon print version of record.Includes bibliographical references (p.[240]-264) and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I - Introduction; Chapter 1 - Medical Sociology; Chapter 2 - Religion and Medicine: From Sin to Sickness; Part II - Concepts of Disease and Sickness; Chapter 3 - On being Sick; Chapter 4 - Madness and Psychiatry; Chapter 5 - Women's Complaints: Patriarchy and Illness; Chapter 6 - Aging, Dying and Death; Part III - Social Organization of Medical Power; Chapter 7 - Professions, knowledge and Power; Chapter 8 - Medical Bureaucracies: the Hospital, the clinic and Modern Society; Chapter 9 - Capitalism, Class and IllnessChapter 10 - Comparative Health Systems: The Globalization of Medical PowerPart IV - Conclusion; Chapter 11 - The Regulation of Bodies; Chapter 12 - Risk Society and the New Regime of Disease; Chapter 13 - The Expanding Field of the Sociology of the Body; References; IndexBryan S. Turner considers the ways in which different social theorists have interpreted the experience of health and disease, and the social relations and power structures involved in medical practice. He examines health as an aspect of social action and looks at the subject of health at three levels - the individual, the social and the societal.Social medicineHealthSocial aspectsElectronic books.Social medicine.HealthSocial aspects.306.461Turner Bryan S125145Samson Colin850539StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910451926503321Medical power and social knowledge1899078UNINA