Habermas, Critical Theory and Health

Habermas, Critical Theory and Health provides a key resource for medical sociologists committed to the discipline, and for those with more direct practical interests in health promotion and in good quality services and care.

List of contents

Introduction: Unfolding Themes of an Incomplete Project 2. Lay Health Knowledge and the Concept of the Lifeworld 3. System, Lifeworld and Doctor-patient Interaction: Issues of Trust in a Changing World 4. Health Care Decision-making and the Politics of Health 5. Class, Power and the Durability of Health Inequalities 6. New Social Movements in the Health Domain 7. Finite Resources and Infinite Demand: Public Participation in Health Care Rationing 8. Habermas of Foucault, or Habermas and Foucault? The implications of a Shifting Debate for Medical Sociology 9. Civil Society, the Public Sphere and Deliberative Democracy

About the author

Scambler, Graham

Summary

Habermas, Critical Theory and Health provides a key resource for medical sociologists committed to the discipline, and for those with more direct practical interests in health promotion and in good quality services and care.

Product details

• Assisted by: Graham Scambler (Editor), Scambler Graham (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.05.2001
• EAN: 9780415191814
• ISBN: 978-0-415-19181-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Weight: 570 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Society & culture: general, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, Society and culture: general, Medical Sociology