These essays on health and illness from a sociological perspective, look at health and health models within social and political contexts. They are divided into
Reflects recent social developments with new chapters on Civil Society, Popular Culture and Everyday Life Has a strong central argument related to the nature of
Health and illness are intensely personal matters. It seems self evident that health is a basic necessity of the 'good life', though it is often taken for grant
The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that disease is socially produced and distributed. Becoming sick and unhealthy is not the result of individual m