Sickness, health, and medicine
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Sickness, health, and medicine
（Sociology in focus series）
Longman, 1989
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Bibliography: 2nd postliminary p.
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is taken from a series of short topic books which are designed to cover the requirements of A level sociology syllabuses. Each book is written by a specialist in the area and contains a selection of readings and documentary extracts, including statistical and quantitative data where relevant, as well as textual analysis. This book provides explores the relationship between health, illness, medicine and society, begining with an analysis of the reasons for the rise of scietific medicine in Western society.
Table of Contents
- Healing and scientific medicine
- health and industrialisation
- health inequalites
- being ill
- social control and medicine
- statistical data
- documentary readings and extracts.
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