Modernity, medicine and health: medical sociology towards 2000/ Edited by Graham Scambler and Paul Higgs. - London : Routledge, 1998. - xix,241p. : 23cm.

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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Sociology of medicine.

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