Modernity, medicine and health: medical sociology towards 2000/ Edited by Graham Scambler and Paul Higgs.

Contributor(s): Scambler, Graham ed | Higgs, Paul edMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 1998Description: xix,241p. : 23cmISBN: 9780415149396Subject(s): Sociology of medicineDDC classification: 306.461
Contents:
1 Michael Bury -- Postmodernity and Health 2 Nicholas Fox -- The Promise of Postmodernism for the Sociology of Health and Medicine 3 Graham Scambler -- Medical Sociology and Modernity: Reflections on the Public Sphere and the Roles of Intellectuals and Social Critics 4 Richard Levinson -- Issues at the Interface of Medical Sociology and Public Health 5 Paul Higgs and Graham Scambler -- Explaining Health Inequalities: How Useful are Concepts of Social Class 6 Annette Scambler -- Gender, Health and the Feminist Debate on Postmodernism 7 Simon Williams and Gillian Bendelow -- In Search of the `Missing Body': Pain, Suffering and the (Post)Modern Condition 8 Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth -- Ageing, the Lifecourse and the Sociology of Embodiment 9 Paul Higgs -- Risk, Governmentality and the Reconceptualization of Citizenship 10 Mike Saks -- Medicine and Complementary Medicine: Challenge and Change 11 Zygmunt Bauman -- Postmodern Adventures of Life and Death
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Includes index.

1 Michael Bury -- Postmodernity and Health

2 Nicholas Fox -- The Promise of Postmodernism for the Sociology of Health and Medicine

3 Graham Scambler -- Medical Sociology and

Modernity: Reflections on the Public Sphere and the Roles of Intellectuals and Social Critics

4 Richard Levinson -- Issues at the Interface of Medical Sociology and Public Health

5 Paul Higgs and Graham Scambler -- Explaining Health Inequalities: How Useful

are Concepts of Social Class

6 Annette Scambler -- Gender, Health and the Feminist Debate on Postmodernism

7 Simon Williams and Gillian Bendelow -- In Search of the `Missing Body': Pain, Suffering and the (Post)Modern Condition

8 Mike Featherstone

and Mike Hepworth -- Ageing, the Lifecourse and the Sociology of Embodiment

9 Paul Higgs -- Risk, Governmentality and the Reconceptualization of Citizenship

10 Mike Saks -- Medicine and Complementary Medicine: Challenge and Change

11 Zygmunt Bauman

-- Postmodern Adventures of Life and Death

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