Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Fut. Calnan, Gabe, Williams<|

Name: Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Fut. Calnan, Gabe, Williams<|
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This text brings together a range of eminent international scholars to reflect upon matters of health, medicine and society at the turn of the century. > \nTaking 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.\n Contributors draw upon a range of contemporary theories, both modernist and postmodernist, to look at the following themes:\n *health and social structure\n*the contested nature of the body\n*the salience of consumption and risk\n*the challenge of emotions\nHealth, 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, medicines