Modernity, Medicine and Health 1st Edition – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable

This book establishes the voice of medical sociology in key debates in the social sciences. Concerning modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism issues covered include:* disease and medicine in postmodern times* gender, health and the feminist debate on the postmodern* ageing, the lifecourse and the sociology of health and ageing* medicine and complementary medicine* death in postmodernity.