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9780415149396

Modernity, Medicine and Health

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415149396

  • ISBN10:

    0415149398

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1998-06-05
  • Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

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Social change in the past quarter of a century has had a considerable impact on health and medicine.Modernity, Medicine and Healthbrings together a variety of influential sociologists who present their theories on the nature and depth of change, and on the modernity/postmodernity debates, and apply them to issues of health and healing. Among the issues covered are the parameters of the futures of medical sociology itself, the potential and limitations of the postmodern perspective, the interface with public health, analyses of class and gender, new notions of citizenship, complementary medicine, and life and death in postmodern times.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. x
Postmodernity and Healthp. 1
The Promise of Postmodernism for the Sociology of Health and Medicinep. 29
Medical Sociology and Modernityp. 46
Issues at the Interface of Medical Sociology and Public Healthp. 66
Explaining Health Inequalitiesp. 82
Gender, Health and the Feminist Debate on Postmodernismp. 100
In Search of the 'Missing Body'p. 125
Ageing, the Lifecourse and the Sociology of Embodimentp. 147
Risk, Governmentality and the Reconceptualization of Citizenshipp. 176
Medicine and Complementary Medicinep. 198
Postmodern Adventures of Life and Deathp. 216
Indexp. 233
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