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Health, medicine, and society : key theories, future agendas /

Taking as its point of departure recent developments in health and social theory Health, Medicine and Society brings together a range of eminent, international scholars to reflect upon key issues at the turn of the century. Contributors draw upon a range of contemporary theories, both modernist and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Williams, Simon J. (Simon Johnson), 1961- (Editor ), Gabe, Jonathan (Editor ), Calnan, Michael (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Health, medicine and society: key theories, future agendas; Rethinking social structure and health; Class, time and biography; Gender, postmodernism and health; A place for race? Medical sociology and the critique of racial ideology; Health, ageing and the lifecourse; The Body; Childhood bodies: social construction and translation; Flexible bodies: science and a new culture of health in the US; 'Recombinant bodies': narrative, metaphor and the gene; The politics of 'disabled' bodies.
  • Reflections on the 'mortal' body in late modernityRisk and consumption; Food, risk and subjectivity; The ritual of health promotion; Drugs and risk: developing a sociology of HIV risk behaviour; Health care and consumption; Emotions; Emotions, psychiatry and social order: a Habermasian approach; Emotions, social structure and health: rethinking the class inequalities debate; Emotions and gender in US health care contexts: implications for change and stasis in the division of labour; The ethics and politics of caring: postmodern reflections; Notes; Index.