Title: Medicine as culture : illness, disease and the body in Western societies /
Authors: Lupton, Deborah.
Publisher: SAGE,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural; Social Medicine; Social medicine; Medical anthropology.; Civilization, Western.
Abstract: This edition provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in Western societies.
Contents: Theoretical perspectives on medicine and society -- The body in medicine -- Representations of medicine, illness and disease in elite and popular culture -- The lay perspective on illness and disease -- Power relations and the medical encounter -- Feminisms and medicine.