Medical Power and Social Knowledge - Couverture souple

Turner, Bryan S

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803980884 ISBN 13 : 9780803980884

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 1987

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803980884
• ISBN 13: 9780803980884
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible