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Medical Power and Social Knowledge.
"Turner's intelligible and readable style and his broad grasp of social theory and history make this volume an interesting blend of historical particularities and specific cross-national examples. It is a work that is both entertaining, informative and accessible"--Medical Sociology N...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
SAGE Publications,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I
- Introduction; Chapter 1
- Medical Sociology; Chapter 2
- Religion and Medicine: From Sin to Sickness; Part II
- Concepts of Disease and Sickness; Chapter 3
- On being Sick; Chapter 4
- Madness and Psychiatry; Chapter 5
- Women's Complaints: Patriarchy and Illness; Chapter 6
- Aging, Dying and Death; Part III
- Social Organization of Medical Power; Chapter 7
- Professions, knowledge and Power; Chapter 8
- Medical Bureaucracies: the Hospital, the clinic and Modern Society; Chapter 9
- Capitalism, Class and Illness
- Chapter 10
- Comparative Health Systems: The Globalization of Medical PowerPart IV
- Conclusion; Chapter 11
- The Regulation of Bodies; Chapter 12
- Risk Society and the New Regime of Disease; Chapter 13
- The Expanding Field of the Sociology of the Body; References; Index