Modernity, Medicine and HealthPaul Higgs, Graham Scambler This book establishes the voice of medical sociology in key debates in the social sciences. Concerning modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism issues covered include: * disease and medicine in postmodern times * gender, health and the feminist debate on the postmodern * ageing, the lifecourse and the sociology of health and ageing * medicine and complementary medicine * death in postmodernity. |
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Modernity, Medicine, and Health: Medical Sociology Towards 2000 Graham Scambler,Paul Higgs Limited preview - 1998 |