Modernity, Medicine and Health

Herausgeber: Higgs, Paul; Scambler, Graham

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780415149396
• ISBN-10: 0415149398
• Artikelnr.: 25467802

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Introduction
1 Postmodernity and health
2 The promise of postmodernism for the sociology of health and medicine
3 Medical sociology and modernity: reflections on the public sphere and the roles of intellectuals and social critics
4 Issues at the interface of medical sociology and public health
5 Explaining health inequalities: how useful are concepts of social class?
6 Gender
health and the feminist debate on postmodernism
7 In search of the 'missing body': pain
suffering and the (post) modern condition
8 Ageing
the lifecourse and the sociology of embodiment
9 Risk
governmentality and the reconceptualization of citizenship
10 Medicine and complementary medicine: challenge and change
11 Postmodern adventures of life and death
Index