Health, medicine, and society : key theories, future agendas / edited by Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe, and Michael Calnan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Simon J. (Simon Johnson), 1961-

Gabe, Jonathan.

Calnan, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine.

Health--Social aspects.

Health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-59825-4

0-203-46361-7

1-134-59826-2

1-280-40357-8

9786610403578

9780203463611

OCLC:

62592307