Modernity, medicine and health : medical sociology towards 2000 /

Modernity, medicine and health : medical sociology towards 2000 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 241 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Social medicine. Postmodernism. Sociology, Medical -- trends. Postmodernism. Social medicine. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11148946

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Other authors / contributors:	Scambler, Graham. Higgs, Paul.
ISBN:	9780203980651 0203980654 9780415149389 041514938X 9780415149396 0415149398 0203980654 041514938X 0415149398
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Modernity, medicine and health. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998

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Summary:	This book establishes the voice of medical sociology in key debates in the social sciences. Concerning modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism issues covered include:<br> * disease and medicine in postmodern times<br> * gender, health and the feminist debate on the postmodern<br> * ageing, the lifecourse and the sociology of health and ageing<br> * medicine and complementary medicine<br> * death in postmodernity.<br>
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 241 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780203980651 0203980654 9780415149389 041514938X 9780415149396 0415149398