Medical Power and Social Knowledge
Medical Power and Social Knowledge Books
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The fully revised edition of this successful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to medical sociology and an assessment of its significance for social theory and the social sciences. It includes a absolutely revised chapter on mental health and new chapters on the sociology of the body and on the relationship between health and risk in contemporary societies.
Bryan S Turner considers the ways in which different social theorists have interpreted the experience of health and disease, and the social relations and power structures caught up in medical do. He examines health as an aspect of social action and looks at the theme of health at three levels – the individual, the social and the societal. Among the pe
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