Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society

Taylor & Francis

Sociology, Health and the Fractured SocietyA Critical Realist Account\nAuthor(s): Graham Scambler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138909823, 978-1138909823\nSynopsis\nIt is now accepted that many of the determinants of health and health care are social. This volume offers a philosophical and theoretical frame within which the nature and extent of this might be optimally examined. The analysis is rooted in Roy Bhaskars basic and dialectical critical realism, although it draws also on the critical theory of Jurgen Habermas. It purports to provide an ontologically and epistemologically grounded comparative sociology of contemporary health and health care in the twenty-first century. \n\nCarrying a fourfold agenda, the volume sets out a dialectical critical realist frame for a comparative sociology of health and health care; it clarifies sociologys potential and limitations; it suggests a research programme and a se.