Modernity, Medicine and Health
Modernity, Medicine and Health by Paul Higgs
English | 23 Apr. 1998 | ISBN: 041514938X, 0415149398 | 260 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | 23 Apr. 1998 | ISBN: 041514938X, 0415149398 | 260 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.