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Medical Power and Social Knowledge

Medical Power and Social Knowledge

Turner, Bryan S.

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0803975996
ISBN13: 9780803975996
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: Aug 22 1995
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
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.

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