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Subject(s)

• Social medicine [Browse]
• Public welfare [Browse]
• Sociology—Philosophy [Browse]

Related name

• Scambler, Graham [Browse]

Series

Critical studies in health and society. [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction theory, theorists and the sociology of health / Graham Scambler
• Foucault, health and healthcare / Alan Petersen Chapter
• Consuming bodies : Zygmunt Bauman on the difference between fitness and health / Paul Higgs
• Jurgen Habermas : politics and morality in health and medicine / Gemma Edwards
• Luhmann's social systems theory, health and illness / Barry Gibson and Olga Boiko
• Bourdieu and the impact of health and illness in the lifeworld / Sasha Scambler
• Merleau-Ponty, medicine and the body / Nick Crossley
• World system theory and the epidemiological transition / Martin Hyde And Anthony Rosie
• Archer, morphogenesis and the role of agency in the sociology of health inequalities / Graham Scambler
• Deleuze and Guattari / Nick Fox
• Health and medicine in the information age : Castells, informational capitalism and the network society / Simon Williams.

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ISBN

• 9780415597821 (hardback)
• 041559782X (hardback)
• 9780415597838 (pbk.)
• 0415597838 (pbk.)
• 9780203122686 (ebook)
• 0203122682 (ebook)

LCCN

2011041146

OCLC

659750707

Other standard number

• 99949405312

RCP

C - S

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