By: Simon J. Williams (Editor), Jonathan Gabe (Editor), Michael Calnan (Editor)

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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 emotions
Health, 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.

List of contributors
Introduction - Health, medicine and society: key theories, future agendas	p. 1
Rethinking social structure and health	p. 25
Class, time and biography	p. 27
Gender, postmodernism and health	p. 51
A place for race? Medical sociology and the critique of racial ideology	p. 67
Health, ageing and the lifecourse	p. 87
The Body	p. 107
Childhood bodies: social construction and translation	p. 109
Flexible bodies: science and a new culture of health in the US	p. 123
'Recombinant bodies': narrative, metaphor and the gene	p. 146
The politics of 'disabled' bodies	p. 169
Reflections on the 'mortal' body in late modernity	p. 186
Risk and consumption	p. 203
Food, risk and subjectivity	p. 205
The ritual of health promotion	p. 219
Drugs and risk: developing a sociology of HIV risk behaviour	p. 236
Health care and consumption	p. 255
Emotions	p. 275
Emotions, psychiatry and social order: A Habermasian approach	p. 277
Emotions, social structure and health: rethinking the class inequalities debate	p. 296
Emotions and gender in US health care contexts: implications for change and stasis in the division of labour	p. 315
The ethics and politics of caring: postmodern reflections	p. 333
Notes	p. 351
Index	p. 359
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ISBN: 9780415221351
ISBN-10: 0415221358
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 384
Published: 26th April 2000
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 2.8
Weight (kg): 0.86