edited by Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe, and Michael Calnan.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2000.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xvi, 366 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 division of labour; The ethics and politics of caring: postmodern reflections; Notes; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Health, medicine, and society.
International Standard Book Number
0415221358
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Health-- Social aspects.
Social medicine.
Social Medicine [MESH]
Médecine sociale.
Santé-- Aspect social.
Health-- Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.