Modernity Medicine and Health Medical Sociology Towards 2000 1st edition by Paul Higgs, Graham Scambler 041514938X 978-0415149389

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ISBN 10: 041514938X
ISBN 13: 978-0415149389
Author:  Paul Higgs, Graham Scambler 

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.

Modernity Medicine and Health Medical Sociology Towards 2000 1st Table of contents:

1 Postmodernity and health

Michael Bury

2 The promise of postmodernism for the sociology of health and medicine

Nicholas Fox

3 Medical sociology and modernity: reflections on the public sphere and the roles of intellectuals and social critics

Graham Scambler

4 Issues at the interface of medical sociology and public health

Richard Levinson

5 Explaining health inequalities: how useful are concepts of social class?

Paul Higgs and Graham Scambler

6 Gender, health and the feminist debate on postmodernism

Annette Scambler

7 In search of the ‘missing body’: pain, suffering and the (post)modern condition

Simon Williams and Gillian Bendelow

8 Ageing, the lifecourse and the sociology of embodiment

Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth

9 Risk, governmentality and the reconceptualization of citizenship Paul Higgs

10 Medicine and complementary medicine: challenge and change

Mike Saks

11 Postmodern adventures of life and death

Zygmunt Bauman

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