TY - BOOK AU - Scambler, Graham ed. AU - Higgs, Paul ed. TI - Modernity, medicine and health: medical sociology towards 2000 SN - 9780415149396 U1 - 306.461 PY - 1998/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Sociology of medicine N1 - 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 ER -