Adv Med Sociol S 1

by Barbara Hanson

A study of social assumptions, specific events, medical categories, distinct groups and ideas of control in health research. This book examines presumptions about gender, race and age with particular reference to the "biological clock" and notions of "civilized countries" and "primitive races". The volume is divided into three sections. The first section spells out the author's new theory of medicalism - a co-emergent process of health care which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762302437
• ISBN13: 9780762302437
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"