Medical Power and Social Knowledge - Rilegato

Turner, Bryan S

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0803980876 ISBN 13: 9780803980877

Casa editrice: Sage Publications Ltd, 1987

Riassunto

In this new textbook, Professor Bryan Turner describes and contributes to the sociological analysis of medicine. He provides an overview of the debates through which the sociology of medicine has developed and connects major issues in health and disease to central problems in social theory.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0803980876
• ISBN 13: 9780803980877
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile