Medical Power and Social Knowledge (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)

This new edition includes a completely revised chapter on mental health, new chapters on the sociology of the body and on the relationship between health and risk in contemporary societies. Author Bryan S. Turner assesses the ways in which different social theorists have interpreted the experience of health and disease and the social relations and power structures involved in the medical practice. He examines health as an aspect of social action and looks at the problem of health at three levels-the individual, the social, and the societal. Among the perspectives analyzed are Parsons's view of the "sick role" and the patient's relation to society, Foucault's critique of medical models of madness and sexuality, Marxist and feminist debates on the relation of health and medicine to capitalism and patriarchy, and the contribution of Beck to the sociological understanding of environmental pollution and hazard in the politics of health. The fully revised edition of this successful textbook, Medical Power and Social Knowledge, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to medical sociology and an assessment of its significance for social theory and the social sciences.

General

Imprint:	Sage Publications Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 1995
First published:	1995
Authors:	Bryan S. Turner
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8039-7598-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8039-7598-8
Barcode:	9780803975989

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