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Contemporary theorists for medical sociology / edited by Graham Scambler. - London : Routledge, 2011. - 208 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical studies in health and society . - Critical studies in health and society. .

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

ISBN: 9780415597838: £22.99 9780415597821: œ75.00 0415597838 (pbk.) 9780415597838 (pbk.) 041559782X

LCCN: 2011041146

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sociology--Philosophy
Public welfare.
Social medicine.
Health and Wellbeing.
Society & culture: general
Illness & addiction: social aspects
Social theory
Medical sociology

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1