Contemporary theorists for medical sociology / edited by Graham Scambler.

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Superior document:Critical studies in health and society
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Critical studies in health and society.
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Physical Description:x, 202 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction theory, theorists and the sociology of health / Graham Scambler
  • Foucault, health and healthcare / Alan Petersen Chapter
  • Consuming bodies : Zygmunt Bauman on the difference between fitness and health / Paul Higgs
  • Jurgen Habermas : politics and morality in health and medicine / Gemma Edwards
  • Luhmann's social systems theory, health and illness / Barry Gibson and Olga Boiko
  • Bourdieu and the impact of health and illness in the lifeworld / Sasha Scambler
  • Merleau-Ponty, medicine and the body / Nick Crossley
  • World system theory and the epidemiological transition / Martin Hyde And Anthony Rosie
  • Archer, morphogenesis and the role of agency in the sociology of health inequalities / Graham Scambler
  • Deleuze and Guattari / Nick Fox
  • Health and medicine in the information age : Castells, informational capitalism and the network society / Simon Williams.