The Problem of medical knowledge : examining the social construction of medicine

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The Problem of medical knowledge : examining the social construction of medicine

edited by Peter Wright and Andrew Treacher

Edinburgh University Press, c1982

  • : pbk.

Available at  / 7 libraries

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents of Works

  • Asthma attacked? / John Gabbay
  • Medicine, symbol and ideology / Jean Comaroff
  • Concerning the continuity between the image of society and the image of the human body / Anne Marcovich
  • Anticontagionism and history's medical record / Roger Cooter
  • The doctor-patient relationship, 1930-80 / David Armstrong
  • The social construction of mental illness / David Ingleby
  • Constructing genetic diseases / Edward Yoxen
  • Medical modes of production / Howard Berliner
  • How does illness mediate social relations? / Karl Figlio

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