Medicine, Health and Risk: Sociological Approaches

by Gabe

Medicine, Health and Risk offers a lively appraisal of the range of personal and public health issues facing lay people and experts in Britain and other industrialized countries. In particular it focuses on the manner in which people perceive and manage health risks in different settings; the risk acceptability of various medical interventions; the opportunities and constraints on social movements to influence the policy process with regard to public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631194843
• ISBN13: 9780631194842
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"