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`An intelligent and informed account of medical sociology. Simon Williams has produced an original and comprehensive sociological statement of the centrality of the body to an understanding of medicine, health and illness. His scope is impressive... It will shape future teaching and research in the field of health and illness' - Bryan S Turner, Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge This is a clear, well-written account of medicine, health and the body. Taking recent debates on the body and society as its point of departure, the book critically reexamines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas in health and illness. Included here are cutting edge discussions and debates concerning: - the medicalized body - health inequalities - childhood and ageing - the dilemmas of high-tech medicine - chronic illness and disability - caring and (bio)ethics - sleep, death and dying - the body in late/postmodernity Written in an accessible, engaging style, with many original and innovative insights, the book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, and to researchers and lecturers with an interest in the embodied agendas of health and medicine in the new millennium.
Introduction: Medical Sociology in the New Millennium
Introduction: Medical Sociology in the New Millennium
This is a book about the body, medicine and health, and the sociological agendas these raise, with emotions at the heart of the matter: the animating principle, so to speak. What is the body? Where do its boundaries lie? How are bodies thought, lived, experienced and expressed, in sickness and in health? What of relations between the body and medicine, health and healing? Do emotions provide the ‘missing link’ between nature and culture, biology and society, structure and agency, the public and the private? And what of ethics: what role bodies? Medical sociology, given the very nature of its subject matter, is well placed to address, if not (fully) answer, these embodied ...
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