Medical Power and Social Knowledge
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Medical Power and Social Knowledge

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Medical Power and Social Knowledge

About this book

The fully revised edition of this successful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to medical sociology and an assessment of its significance for social theory and the social sciences. It includes a completely revised chapter on mental health and new chapters on the sociology of the body and on the relationship between health and risk in contemporary societies.

Bryan S Turner considers the ways in which different social theorists have interpreted the experience of health and disease, and the social relations and power structures involved in medical practice. He examines health as an aspect of social action and looks at the subject of health at three levels - the individual, the social and the societal. Among the perspectives analyzed are: Parsons? 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 Beck?s contribution to the sociological understanding of environmental pollution and hazard in the politics of health.

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Index
Abercrombie, N., 137
abnormal illness behaviours, 40–2
accountancy, 136
accumulation, 179, 180
acedia, 21
activism, 124, 208
activity theory, 117, 128
acupuncture, 85
affect management, 46
African Americans, alleged mental illness among, 61–2, 82
Agassiz, Louis, 62
aging, 45, 110, 118–26, 215, 233
dying and, 125–6
theories of, 115–18
agoraphobia, 104, 105–6
AIDS, 9, 15, 196, 202, 218, 219, 227
alcoholism, 108
allocative intervention, 170
alternative medicine, 166, 213
Althusser, L., 232
American Journal of Nursing, 144
American Medical Association, 184, 185
American Psychiatric Association, 79
anatomy, 27–33, 230
anorexia nervosa, 11, 104, 106–7
anti-psychiatry, 77–9
Aquinas, St Thomas, 26
Ariès, P. 126
Armstrong, David, 233
Arrow, K.J., 194
asceticism, 19–20, 100, 107
Asclepius, 27
asylums, 57, 58, 73–4, 157, 158–9
deinstitutionalization and, 64, 66, 69
numbers in, 59–60
Australia
elderly in, 110, 111, 116, 117
hospitals in, 155
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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. I Introduction
  8. II Concepts of Disease and Sickness
  9. III Social Organization of Medical Power
  10. IV Conclusion
  11. References
  12. Index