Medical Power and Social Knowledge

by Bryan S. Turner

Book Overview

The fully revised edition of this successful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to medical sociology and an assessment of its significance for social theory and the social sciences. It includes a completely revised chapter on mental health and new chapters on the sociology of the body and on the relationship between health and risk in contemporary societies.

Bryan S Turner considers the ways in which different social theorists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803975996
• ISBN13: 9780803975996
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"