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Health studies : a critical and cross-cultural reader / edited by Colin Samson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Malden, Massachusetts : Blackwell Publishers, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Description: xi, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0631201890
  • 9780631201892
  • 0631201904
  • 9780631201908
Other title:
  • Critical and cross-cultural reader
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 23
LOC classification:
  • RA418 .H3945 1999
Contents:
Part I. Biomedicine and the body : -- Colin Samson, 'Biomedicine and the body' -- Michel Foucault, 'Spaces and classes' -- L.J. Jordanova, 'Natural facts : a historical perspective on science and sexuality' -- Paul Rabinow, 'Artificiality and enlightenment : from sociobiology to biosociality' -- Part II. Disease and the self : -- Colin Samson, 'Disease and the self' -- James J. Lynch, 'Human contact in life-threatening environments' -- Roger Levin, 'Cancer and the self : how illness constellates meaning' -- Susan Sontag, 'Illness as metaphor' and 'AIDS and its metaphors' -- Fred Frohock, 'Holistic medicine' -- Part III. The physician and the patient : -- Colin Samson, 'The physician and the patient' -- Oliver Sacks, 'The last hippie' -- Arthur W. Frank, 'The body as territory and as wonder' -- Lesley Cooper, 'Myalgic encephalomyelitis and the medical encounter' -- John Berger, 'A fortunate man' -- Part IV. Creating sickness : -- Colin Samson, 'Creating sickness' -- Friedrich Engels, 'Results of industrialisation' -- Megan Vaughn, 'Rats' tails and trypanosomes : nature and culture in early colonial medicine' -- Harold Napoleon, 'Yuuyaraq : the way of the human being' -- Nancy Scheper-Hughes, 'Nervoso : medicine, sickness, and human needs.
Summary: Health Studies presents a challenging compilation of classic and new material on the social basis of health, illness and healing. It introduces students to the field whilst offering a critical insight into current debates.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Biomedicine and the body : -- Colin Samson, 'Biomedicine and the body' -- Michel Foucault, 'Spaces and classes' -- L.J. Jordanova, 'Natural facts : a historical perspective on science and sexuality' -- Paul Rabinow, 'Artificiality and enlightenment : from sociobiology to biosociality' -- Part II. Disease and the self : -- Colin Samson, 'Disease and the self' -- James J. Lynch, 'Human contact in life-threatening environments' -- Roger Levin, 'Cancer and the self : how illness constellates meaning' -- Susan Sontag, 'Illness as metaphor' and 'AIDS and its metaphors' -- Fred Frohock, 'Holistic medicine' -- Part III. The physician and the patient : -- Colin Samson, 'The physician and the patient' -- Oliver Sacks, 'The last hippie' -- Arthur W. Frank, 'The body as territory and as wonder' -- Lesley Cooper, 'Myalgic encephalomyelitis and the medical encounter' -- John Berger, 'A fortunate man' -- Part IV. Creating sickness : -- Colin Samson, 'Creating sickness' -- Friedrich Engels, 'Results of industrialisation' -- Megan Vaughn, 'Rats' tails and trypanosomes : nature and culture in early colonial medicine' -- Harold Napoleon, 'Yuuyaraq : the way of the human being' -- Nancy Scheper-Hughes, 'Nervoso : medicine, sickness, and human needs.

Health Studies presents a challenging compilation of classic and new material on the social basis of health, illness and healing. It introduces students to the field whilst offering a critical insight into current debates.

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