Health, Medicine and Society 
Subtitle: Key Theories, Future Agendas
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780415221351
Subjects: Anthropology; Public health & preventive medicine; Social theory; Public Health (General); Sociology Of Medicine; Medical; Sociology; Health/Fitness; Health Care Issues; Public Health; Sociology - Social Theory; Health & Fitness / General; General; Health; Social aspects; Social medicine
First sentence: Social class has always been a fundamental concept in medical sociology, demonstrating its empirical value for the understanding of 'health chances' for the individual ever since the early years of this century when Stevenson constructed a classification based on father's occupation for the purpose of analysing infant mortality in England and Wales (Stevenson 1925).