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Modernity, Medicine and Health

Graham Scambler editor Paul Higgs editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:23rd Apr '98

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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.

ISBN: 9780415149396

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 480g

262 pages