Medical Power and Social KnowledgeIn this new textbook, Professor Bryan Turner describes and contributes to the sociological analysis of medicine. He provides an overview of the debates through which the sociology of medicine has developed and connects major issues in health and disease to central problems in social theory. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Medical sociology 18 | 18 |
CONCEPTS OF DISEASE AND SICKNESS | 39 |
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