Medical sociology : an introduction /
What are the limits of medical power? How has sociology helped to make sense of illness, disease, choice and risk? What are the challenges to medical practice?
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles :
SAGE,
2009
Los Angeles : [2009] |
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| Summary: | What are the limits of medical power? How has sociology helped to make sense of illness, disease, choice and risk? What are the challenges to medical practice? The result is an accessible, coherent and engaging book that has wide inter-disciplinary appeal to students of medical sociology, medical care and health management This timely and assured text provides lecturers and students with a well informed, penetrating analysis of the key questions in medicine and society. The book opens with a well judged account of the context of health and illness, moves on to examine the process and experience of illness and finally, examines how health care is negotiated and delivered |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 212 p. : ill. ; 25 cm ix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-205) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-205) and index |
| ISBN: | 1412902185 (hbk.) 1412902185 1412902193 (pbk.) 1412902193 9781412902182 (hbk.) 9781412902182 9781412902199 (pbk.) 9781412902199 |