Medical power and social knowledge /
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| Author / Creator: | Turner, Bryan S. |
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| Imprint: | London ; Beverly Hills : Sage, 1987. |
| Description: | 256 p. : ill. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/872967 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Introduction
- Medical Sociology
- Religion and Medicine
- From Sin to Sickness
- Part 2. Concepts of Disease and Sickness
- On Being Sick
- Madness and Psychiatry
- Women's Complaints
- Patriarchy and Illness
- Aging, Dying and Death
- Part 3. Social Organization of Medical Power
- Professions, Knowledge and Power
- Medical Bureaucracies
- The Hospital, the Clinic and Modern Society
- Capitalism, Class and Illness
- Comparative Health Systems
- The Globalization of Medical Power
- Part 4. Conclusion
- The Regulation of Bodies
- Risk Society and the New Regime of Disease
- The Expanding Field of the Sociology of the Body
