Medicine as Culture
Subtitle: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies
Edition: Second Edition edition
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: October 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780761940302
Subjects: Cultural studies; Medicine: General Issues; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology - General; Social Science; Sociology; History; Social Science / Sociology / General
First sentence: Western societies in the early twenty-first century are characterized by people's increasing disillusionment with scientific medicine.