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An intelligent and informed account of medical sociology. Simon Williams has produced an original and comprehensive sociological statement of the centrality of the body to an understanding of medicine, health and illness. His scope is impressive... It will shape future teaching and research in the field of health and illness' - "Bryan S Turner, Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge
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This is a clear, well-written account of medicine, health and the body. Taking recent debates on the body and society as its point of departure, the book critically reexamines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas in health and illness. Included here are cutting edge discussions and debates concerning:
- the medicalized body
- health inequalities
- childhood and ageing
- the dilemmas of high-tech medicine
- chronic illness and disability
- caring and (bio)ethics
- sleep, death and dying
- the body in late/postmodernity
Written in an accessible, engaging style, with many original and innovative insights, the book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, and to researchers and lecturers with an interest in the embodied agendas of health and medicine in the new millennium.
Title: Medicine and the Body
Categories: Medicine,
Edition: First
Publisher: London, Sage Pubns: 2003
ISBN Number: 0761956395
ISBN Number 13: 9780761956396
Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good
Seller ID: 004476
Description: "An intelligent and informed account of medical sociology...an original and comprehensive sociological statement of the centrality of the body to understanding medicine, health and illness. His scope is impressive, including ... sleep, childhood, disability and ageing. It will shape future teaching and reserch in the field of health and illness." Appears unread with creaseingto upper right cnr only defect.
Keywords: SOCIAL MEDICINE MEDICAL PUBLIC HEALTH,