Taking as its point of departure developments in health and social theory, this text reflects upon matters of health, medicine and society at the end of 1999. T... » 

Taking as its point of departure developments in health and social theory, this text reflects upon matters of health, medicine and society at the end of 1999. Thematic in its focus, contributors draw upon a range of contemporary theories, both modernist and postmodernist, to illustrate the issues. «