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- catalog abstract "Medicine as Culture provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in Western societies. Deborah Lupton cogently links the different theoretical perspectives informing scholarship and research directed towards understanding the socio-cultural dimensions of medicine, illness and the body at the end of the twentieth century. At a time of increasing disillusionment with scientific medicine and the mythology of the beneficent, god-like physician, there is also - paradoxically - a growing dependence on biomedicine to provide the answers to social as well as medical problems. This book illuminates why attitudes to medicine are characterized by such strong paradoxes, and why issues of disease, illness and the medical encounter are surrounded by controversy, conflict, power struggles and emotion. Integrating cultural studies, social history and contemporary theories of the body, Medicine as Culture will be essential reading for students and academics in the sociology of health and illness, the sociology of consumption and everyday life, medical anthropology, the history of medicine, health communication, women's studies, nursing studies and cultural studies.".
- catalog contributor b6153868.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-176) and index.".
- catalog description "Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Theoretical Perspectives on Medicine and Society -- The Body in Medicine -- Representations of Medicine, Illness and Disease in Elite and Popular Culture -- The Lay Perspective on Illness and Disease -- Power Relations and the Medical Encounter -- Feminisms and Medicine".
- catalog description "Medicine as Culture provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in Western societies. Deborah Lupton cogently links the different theoretical perspectives informing scholarship and research directed towards understanding the socio-cultural dimensions of medicine, illness and the body at the end of the twentieth century. At a time of increasing disillusionment with scientific medicine and the mythology of the beneficent, god-like physician, there is also - paradoxically - a growing dependence on biomedicine to provide the answers to social as well as medical problems. This book illuminates why attitudes to medicine are characterized by such strong paradoxes, and why issues of disease, illness and the medical encounter are surrounded by controversy, conflict, power struggles and emotion. Integrating cultural studies, social history and contemporary theories of the body, Medicine as Culture will be essential reading for students and academics in the sociology of health and illness, the sociology of consumption and everyday life, medical anthropology, the history of medicine, health communication, women's studies, nursing studies and cultural studies.".
- catalog extent "182 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Medicine as culture.".
- catalog identifier "0803989245 (cased)".
- catalog identifier "0803989253 (pbk) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Medicine as culture.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage,".
- catalog relation "Medicine as culture.".
- catalog subject "1994 H-035".
- catalog subject "306.4/61 20".
- catalog subject "Anthropology, Cultural.".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Western.".
- catalog subject "Medical anthropology.".
- catalog subject "Medicine sociology".
- catalog subject "RA418 .L74 1994".
- catalog subject "Social Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Social medicine.".
- catalog subject "WA 31 L966m 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Theoretical Perspectives on Medicine and Society -- The Body in Medicine -- Representations of Medicine, Illness and Disease in Elite and Popular Culture -- The Lay Perspective on Illness and Disease -- Power Relations and the Medical Encounter -- Feminisms and Medicine".
- catalog title "Medicine as culture : illness, disease and the body in western societies / Deborah Lupton.".
- catalog type "text".