Modernity, Medicine and Health
| By: | Paul Higgs |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415149389 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781134824281 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1998 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.