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"How do we understand health in relation to society? What role does culture play in shaping our experiences of, and orientation to, health and illness? How do we understand medicine and medical treatment within a sociological framework?"--[Source inconnue].
"Medical sociology is a dynamic and complex field of study, comprising many concepts which students sometimes find difficult to grasp. This title manages to successfully elucidate this conceptual terrain. The text systematically explains the key concepts that have preoccupied me…
How do we understand health in relation to society? What role does culture play in shaping our experiences of, and orientation to, health and illness? How do we understand medicine and medical treatment within a sociological framework?
How do we understand health in relation to society? What role does culture play in shaping our experiences of, and orientation to, health and illness? How do we understand medicine and medical treatment within a sociological framework?
Stories of cancer are full of monster and marvels; the monstrousness of the disease and the treatments, the marvels of the cures and the saved lives. Still one of the most dreaded diseases to haunt our imaginations, cancer is more than an illness - it is a cultural phenomenon. P…
Stories of cancer are full of monster and marvels; the monstrousness of the disease and the treatments, the marvels of the cures and the saved lives. Still one of the most dreaded diseases to haunt our imaginations, cancer is more than an illness - it is a cultural phenomenon. P…
Jesús García Blanca realiza una crítica integral del modelo sanitario hegemónico, analizando los intereses políticos y económicos que lo sustentan y denunciando la poca credibilidad de una medicina cada vez más al servicio de los intereses de la industria farmacéutica y menos de…
"Although the field of bioethics is about 40 years old, its emergence and growth have only recently become an object of study for social scientists. The View from Here presents the best of this new work: research that explores how bioethics is shaped by, and gives shape to, not …