Book Details
Orange Code:28037
Paperback:270 pages
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Sections:
1. The Rise of Theory in Medical Sociology2. Modern Symbolic Interaction Theory and Health3. Social Construction and Health4. Statecraft and Soulcraft: Foucault on Prolonging Life5. Marx, Critical Realism, and Health Inequalities6. Fundamental Cause Theory7. Bourdieu and an Update of Health Lifestyle Theory8. Gender Theory and Health9. Theories and the Rise and Fall of the Medical Profession10. Medicalization: Changing Contours, Characteristics, and Contexts11. Reflexive Modernity and the Sociology of Health
Description:
This book provides readers with a single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health sociology. The book not only addresses the major theoretical approaches in the field today, it also identifies the future directions these theories are likely to take in explaining the social processes affecting health and disease. Many of the chapters are written by leading medical sociologists who feature the use of theory in their everyday work, including contributions from the original theorists of fundamental causes, health lifestyles, and medicalization. Theories focusing on both agency and structure are included to provide a comprehensive account of this important area in medical sociology.
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