Modernity, Medicine and Health |
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| Editor:
| Scambler, Graham
Higgs, Paul |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-14938-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1998 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $220.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.