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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/61
• Soggetto topico: Social medicine; Postmodernism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ScamblerGraham HiggsPaul
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Modernity, medicine, and health
• ISBN: 1-134-82429-7; 1-280-13875-0; 9786610138753; 0-203-98065-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457331703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II