| Description |
x, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Critical studies in health and society |
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Critical studies in health and society.
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| Contents |
Introduction theory, theorists and the sociology of health / Graham Scambler -- Foucault, health and healthcare / Alan Petersen Chapter -- Consuming bodies : Zygmunt Bauman on the difference between fitness and health / Paul Higgs -- Jurgen Habermas : politics and morality in health and medicine / Gemma Edwards -- Luhmann's social systems theory, health and illness / Barry Gibson and Olga Boiko -- Bourdieu and the impact of health and illness in the lifeworld / Sasha Scambler -- Merleau-Ponty, medicine and the body / Nick Crossley -- World system theory and the epidemiological transition / Martin Hyde And Anthony Rosie -- Archer, morphogenesis and the role of agency in the sociology of health inequalities / Graham Scambler -- Deleuze and Guattari / Nick Fox -- Health and medicine in the information age : Castells, informational capitalism and the network society / Simon Williams |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social medicine.
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Public welfare.
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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Sociology, Medical.
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Social Welfare.
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| Author |
Scambler, Graham.
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| LC no. |
2011041146 |
| ISBN |
9780415597821 (hardback) |
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041559782X (hardback) |
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978041559783 (paperback) |
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0415597838 (paperback) |
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