Modernity, Medicine, and Health: Medical Sociology Towards 2000 PDF
260 Pages·1998·2.359 MB·English
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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. Content: 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. Abstract: 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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