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Contemporary theorists for medical sociology - London Routledge 2012 - x,202p. ill. ; 24 cm. - Critical studies in health and society . - Critical studies in health and society. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction theory, theorists and the sociology of health / Graham Scambler -- Foucault, health and healthcare / Alan Petersen Chapter -- Consuming bodies : Zygmunt Bauman on the difference between fitness and health / Paul Higgs -- Jurgen Habermas : politics and morality in health and medicine / Gemma Edwards -- Luhmann's social systems theory, health and illness / Barry Gibson and Olga Boiko -- Bourdieu and the impact of health and illness in the lifeworld / Sasha Scambler -- Merleau-Ponty, medicine and the body / Nick Crossley -- World system theory and the epidemiological transition / Martin Hyde And Anthony Rosie -- Archer, morphogenesis and the role of agency in the sociology of health inequalities / Graham Scambler -- Deleuze and Guattari / Nick Fox -- Health and medicine in the information age : Castells, informational capitalism and the network society / Simon Williams.

ISBN: 9780415597838

LCCN: 2011041146

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015761991 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social medicine.
Public welfare.
Sociology--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: RA418 / .C6723 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1 / CO-