Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge - Couverture souple

Freidson, Eliot

 
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Synopsis

Conveys how medical people shape and organize the knowledge, perception, and experience of illness, as well as the substance of illness behavior, its management, and treatment. The authors believe that the understanding of specifically human rather than generally "animal" illness requires proper study of the social meanings surrounding illness.

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À propos de l'auteur

Eliot Freidson was Professor Emeritus of Sociology in the Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University. He served on scientific advisory boards for the Social Security Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Center for Health Services Research. Judith Lorber is a professor emerita of sociology at Brooklyn College and the City College of New York Graduate Center. She is author of Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change, and Gender and the Social Construction of Illness.

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9781138527850: Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1138527858 ISBN 13 :  9781138527850
Editeur : Routledge, 2017
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