Health and Social Change
Subtitle: A Critical Theory
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780335204809
Subjects: Health systems & services; Public health & preventive medicine; Social theory; Public Health (General); Medical / Nursing; Medical; General; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Public Health; Health; Social Change; Social aspects; Social medicine
First sentence: Mainstream sociology and its subdiscipline of medical sociology have been informed, sustained, inspired and occasionally put off, even corrupted, by a plethora of paradigms in their short histories.