Partners In Health Partners - Couverture souple

Timmermans, Timmermans

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405105399 ISBN 13 : 9781405105392

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Synopsis

This book brings together papers on the border between crime and health care in order to examine questions of interest to both criminologists and medical sociologists.

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• Brings together papers on the border between crime and health care.
  
• Considers the work of forensic health care providers, law enforcement agents and policy makers.
  
• Explores the medical component of crime and the legal status of medicine.
  
• Questions authority, expertise, social control, legitimacy, and credibility within criminology and medical sociology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stefan Timmermans is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University. His interests include death and dying, healthcare technologies and standardisation. He is the author of Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR (Temple, 1999) and co-author (with Marc Berg) of The Gold Standard: A Sociological Exploration of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care (Temple, forthcoming).

Jonathan Gabe is Reader of Social and Political Science at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests include health care organisation, chronic illness and mental health. He is the author of Going Private (with Michael Calnan and Sarah Cant) (Open University Press, 1993) and a number of edited collections including Medicine, Health and Risk (Blackwell, 1995), Health and Sociology of Emotions (with Veronica James) (Blackwell, 1996) and Theorising Health, Medicine and Society (with Simon Williams and Michael Calnan) (Routledge, 2000).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405105399
• ISBN 13: 9781405105392
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible