Health, Medicine and Society (eBook, ePUB)

Key Theories, Future Agendas
Redaktion: Calnan, Michael; Williams, Simon J.; Gabe, Jonathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134598250
• Artikelnr.: 47886608

Autorenporträt

Michael Calnan, Jonathan Gabe, Simon J. Williams

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Introduction-Health
medicine and society key theories
future agendas
PART I Rethinking social structure and health
PART II The Body
PART III Risk and consumption
PART IV Emotions
Notes
Index