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Health, Medicine and Society

Key Theories, Future Agendas

Jonathan Gabe editor Simon J Williams editor Michael Calnan editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

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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.

ISBN: 9780415221351

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 860g

382 pages