Modernity, Medicine and Health by Paul Higgs, Graham Scambler - 9780415149389

Taylor & Francis

An opportunity for medical sociology to establish a voice in the key debates in social science today: modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism. Essential reading for students of the sociology of medicine, health and illness. > 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. > List of contributors, Introduction, 1 Postmodernity and health, 2 The promise of postmodernism for the sociology of health and medicine, 3 Medical sociology and modernity: reflections on the public sphere and the roles of intellectuals and social critics, 4 Issues at the interface of medical sociology and public health, 5 Expl.