ISBN:
9780803975996
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (287 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Medical Power and Social Knowledge
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Health ; Social aspects
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Social medicine
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
`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 News
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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