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Title Health, medicine, and society : key theories, future agendas / edited by Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe, and Michael Calnan.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 366 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents 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.
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 division of labour; The ethics and politics of caring: postmodern reflections; Notes; Index.
Summary 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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Subject Social medicine.
Health -- Social aspects.
Social Medicine [MESH]
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Health -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00952795
Social medicine. (OCoLC)fst01122637
Added Author Williams, Simon J. (Simon Johnson), 1961- editor.
Gabe, Jonathan, editor.
Calnan, Michael, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Health, medicine, and society. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 0415221358 (DLC) 99045375 (OCoLC)42475494
ISBN 0203463617 (electronic book)
9780203463611 (electronic book)
9780415221351 (hardback)
0415221358 (hardback)
9780415221368 (paperback)
1280403578
0415221366 (paperback)
9781280403576
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