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Health, Medicine and Society : Key Theories, Future Agendas, Paperback / softback Book

Health, Medicine and Society : Key Theories, Future Agendas Paperback / softback

Edited by Michael Calnan, Jonathan Gabe, Simon J. Williams

Paperback / softback

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Taking as its point of departure recent developments in health and social theory Health, Medicine and Society brings together a range of eminent, international scholars to reflect upon key issues at the turn of the century. Contributors draw upon a range of contemporary theories, both modernist and postmodernist, to look at the following themes: *health and social structure*the contested nature of the body*the salience of consumption and risk*the challenge of emotionsHealth, Medicine and Society provides a 'state-of-the-art' assessment of health related issues at the millennium and a cogent set of arguments for the centrality of health to contemporary social theory.

Written in a clear, accessible style it will be ideal reading for students and researchers in health studies, public health, medical sociology, medicine and nursing.

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