03075nam 2200649 a 450 991081557770332120240131143815.01-4462-3272-70-8039-7598-81-283-88083-01-4462-6418-1(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(OCoLC)1199300994(FINmELB)ELB136489(EXLCZ)99255000000010391020120327d1995 fy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMedical power and social knowledge[electronic resource] /Bryan S. Turner, with Colin Samson2nd ed.London SAGE1995London ;Thousand Oaks :Sage Publications,1995.1 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 aspectsSocial medicine.HealthSocial aspects.306.461Turner Bryan S125145Samson Colin1172797StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910815577703321Medical power and social knowledge3975831UNINA