UID:
edocfu_9958334888402883
Format:
1 online resource (383 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-59825-4
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0-203-46361-7
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1-134-59826-2
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1-280-40357-8
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9786610403578
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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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
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-22136-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-22135-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203463611
