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Modernity, Medicine and Health [PDF ebook]

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This book establishes the voice of medical sociology in key debates in the social sciences. Concerning modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism issues covered include: * disease and medicine in postmodern times * gender, health and the feminist debate on the postmodern * ageing, the lifecourse and the sociology of health and ageing * medicine and complementary medicine * death in postmodernity.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 264 ● ISBN 9781134824298 ● Editor Paul Higgs & Graham Scambler ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2005 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4212906 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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