| Description |
232 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Asthma attacked? / John Gabbay -- Medicine, symbol and ideology / Jean Comaroff -- Concerning the continuity between the image of society and the image of the human body / Anne Marcovich -- Anticontagionism and history's medical record / Roger Cooter -- The doctor-patient relationship, 1930-80 / David Armstrong -- The social construction of mental illness / David Ingleby -- Constructing genetic diseases / Edward Yoxen -- Medical modes of production / Howard Berliner -- How does illness mediate social relations? / Karl Figlio |
| Analysis |
Medicine |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Medicine -- History.
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Social medicine.
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| Author |
Treacher, Andrew.
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Wright, Peter, 1941-
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| LC no. |
82230009 |
| ISBN |
0852244177 |
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