ISBN:
9780415221351
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (383 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Health, Medicine and Society : Key Theories, Future Agendas
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Social Medicine
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This text brings together a range of eminent international scholars to reflect upon matters of health, medicine and society at the turn of the century
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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