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Medical Power and Social Knowledge

Paperback • 1995 • English • 2. edition

Medical Power and Social Knowledge

By Turner, Bryan S

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The fully revised edition of this successful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to medical sociology and an assessment of its significance for social theory and the social sciences. It includes a completely revised chapter on mental health and new chapters on the sociology of the body and on the relationship between health and risk in contemporary societies. Bryan S Turner considers the ways in which different social theorists have interpreted the experience of health and disease, a...Show more

Sociology
Social theory
Medical sociology

Book details

ISBN

9780803975996

Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

Published year

1995

Language

English

Edition

2

Original title

Medical Power and Social Knowledge

Format

Paperback

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