Challenging Medicine offers a lively appraisal of the current challenges to the dominance of medicine in the health service and analyzes their effects on the status and ...

'Simon Williams has produced an original and comprehensive sociological statement of the centrality of the body to an understanding of medicine, health and illness... It will ...

Society and Culture reclaims the classical heritage, provides a clear-eyed assessment of the promise of sociology in the 21st century and asks whether the `cultural turn' has ...

Foucault's classic study of the history of medicine.

The fifth edition of this classic textbook explores the origins, nature and context of illness in modern society and provides a framework for understanding the social aspects ...

P.M. Strong played a crucial role in the intellectual development of medical sociology as a field. Twelve of his major essays are gathered together for the first time in this ...