ISBN:
0203463617
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9780203463611
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9780415221351
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0415221358
,
9780415221368
,
0415221366
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvi, 366 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Health, medicine, and society
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Health Social aspects
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Médecine sociale
;
Santé Aspect social
;
Social medicine
;
Health Social aspects
;
Social Medicine
;
Social Medicine [MESH]
;
Social sciences Philosophy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Health ; Social aspects
;
Social medicine
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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 postmodernist, to look at the following themes: *health and social structure*the contested nature of the body*the salience of consumption and risk*the challenge of emotions Health, Medicine and Society provides a 'state-of-the-art' assessment of health related issues at the millennium and a cogent set of arguments for the centrality of health to contemporary social theory. Written in a clear, accessible style it will be ideal reading for students and researchers in health studies, public health, medical sociology, medicine and nursing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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