Modernity, Medicine and Health

This book establishes the voice of medical sociology in key debates in the social sciences. Concerning modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism issues covered include:
* disease and medicine in postmodern times
* gender, health and the feminist debate on the postmodern
* ageing, the lifecourse and the sociology of health and ageing
* medicine and complementary medicine
* death in postmodernity.

Info autore

Graham Scambler is Reader in Sociology and Director of the Unit of Medical Sociology at University College London. Paul Higgs is Lecturer in Medical Sociology also at University College London.

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Paul Higgs (Editore), Graham Scambler (Editore), Higgs Paul (Editore), Scambler Graham (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 23.04.1998
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia sociale, assistenza sociale; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali
• EAN: 9780415149396
• ISBN: 978-0-415-14939-6
• Numero di pagine: 262
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13.8 x 21.6 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 480 g
• Categorie: Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Personal & public health, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Personal and public health / health education, sociology of health and illness research, governmentality in healthcare, pain and suffering analysis