Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas / Edition 1

by Michael Calnan, Jonathan Gabe, Simon J. Williams

Overview

Taking as its point of departure recent developments in health and social theory Health, Medicine and Society brings together a range of eminent, international scholars to reflect upon key issues at the turn of the century.
Contributors draw upon a range of contemporary theories, both modernist and postmodernist, to look at the following themes:
*health and social structure
*the contested nature of the body
*the salience of consumption and risk
*the challenge of emotions
Health, Medicine and Society provides a 'state-of-the-art' assessment of health related issues at the millennium and a cogent set of arguments for the centrality of health to contemporary social theory. Written in a clear, accessible style it will be ideal reading for students and researchers in health studies, public health, medical sociology, medicine and nursing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415221368
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/24/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Calnan, Jonathan Gabe, Simon J. Williams

Table of Contents

List of contributors, Introduction—Health, medicine and society key theories, future agendas, PART I Rethinking social structure and health, PART II The Body, PART III Risk and consumption, PART IV Emotions, Notes, Index