Contemporary theorists for medical sociology
By: edited by Graham Scambler
Series: Critical studies in health and society
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon : N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415597821; 9780415597838; 9780203122686
Subjects: Social medicine; Philosophy; Sociology; Public welfare
Table of contents: title: Introduction theory, theorists and the sociology of health / Graham Scambler; title: Foucault, health and healthcare / Alan Petersen Chapter; title: Consuming bodies : Zygmunt Bauman on the difference between fitness and health / Paul Higgs; title: Jurgen Habermas : politics and morality in health and medicine / Gemma Edwards; title: Luhmann's social systems theory, health and illness / Barry Gibson and Olga Boiko; title: Bourdieu and the impact of health and illness in the lifeworld / Sasha Scambler; title: Merleau-Ponty, medicine and the body / Nick Crossley; title: World system theory and the epidemiological transition / Martin Hyde And Anthony Rosie; title: Archer, morphogenesis and the role of agency in the sociology of health inequalities / Graham Scambler; title: Deleuze and Guattari / Nick Fox; title: Health and medicine in the information age : Castells, informational capitalism and the network society / Simon Williams.