Health

by Peter Aggleton

Written in a clear, accessible style, Health introduces students to the valuable contribution sociologists have made to understanding health, illness and disease. In so doing, it challenges the adequacy of biomedical models, contrasting them with explanations offered by positivist, interactionist, structuralist and feminist sociologists.

Aggleton, an experienced teacher, links the key debates within the sociology of health and illness with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B008AB8FM6
• ISBN13: 9780415008167
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"