The Problem of medical knowledge
Subtitle: examining the social construction of medicine
By: edited by Peter Wright and Andrew Treacher.
Contributors: Wright, Peter, 1941-; Treacher, Andrew.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Social medicine.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Asthma attacked? / John Gabbay; title: Medicine, symbol and ideology / Jean Comaroff; title: Concerning the continuity between the image of society and the image of the human body / Anne Marcovich; title: Anticontagionism and history's medical record / Roger Cooter; title: The doctor-patient relationship, 1930-80 / David Armstrong; title: The social construction of mental illness / David Ingleby; title: Constructing genetic diseases / Edward Yoxen; title: Medical modes of production / Howard Berliner; title: How does illness mediate social relations? / Karl Figlio.