Medical Power and Social Knowledge
The fully revised edition of this successful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to medical sociology and an assessment of its significance for social theory and the social sciences. It includes a completely revised chapter on mental health and new chapters on the sociology of the body and on the relationship between health and risk in contemporary societies.Bryan S Turner considers the ways in which different social theorists have interpreted the experience of health and disease, and the social relations and power structures involved in medical practice. He examines health as an aspect of social action and looks at the subject of…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4462-6418-8
- EAN: 9781446264188
- Produktnummer: 17512500
- Verlag: SAGE Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 37'608 KB
- Auflage: Second Edition
Über den Autor
Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.
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