Medicine and the Body

An intelligent and informed account of medical sociology. Simon Williams hasproduced an original and comprehensive sociological statement of the centralityof th... » 

An intelligent and informed account of medical sociology. Simon Williams hasproduced an original and comprehensive sociological statement of the centralityof the body to an understanding of medicine health and illness. His scope isimpressive... It will shape future teaching and research in the field of healthand illness Bryan S Turner Professor of Sociology University of CambridgeThis is a clear wellwritten account of medicine health and the body. Takingrecent debates on the body and society as its point of departure the bookcritically reexamines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas inhealth and illness. Included here are cutting edge discussions and debatesconcerning the medicalized body health inequalities childhood and ageing the dilemmas of hightech medicine chronic illness and disability caring and bioethics sleep death and dying the body in latepostmodernityWritten in an accessible engaging style with many original and innovativeinsights the book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate studentsalike and to researchers and lecturers with an interest in the embodiedagendas of health and medicine in the new millennium. «