ABSTRACT

Taking as its point of departure recent developments in health and social theory Health, Medicine and Society brings together a range of eminent, international scholars to reflect upon key issues at the turn of the century.
Contributors draw upon a range of contemporary theories, both modernist and postmodernist, to look at the following themes:
*health and social structure
*the contested nature of the body
*the salience of consumption and risk
*the challenge of emotions
Health, Medicine and Society provides a 'state-of-the-art' assessment of health related issues at the millennium and a cogent set of arguments for the centrality of health to contemporary social theory. Written in a clear, accessible style it will be ideal reading for students and researchers in health studies, public health, medical sociology, medicine and nursing.

part |2 pages

Part I Rethinking social structure and health

part |2 pages

Part II The body

chapter 5|14 pages

Childhood bodies

Alan Prout

chapter 6|23 pages

Flexible bodies

Emily Martin

chapter 7|23 pages

‘Recombinant bodies’

Deborah Lynn Steinberg

part |2 pages

Part III Risk and consumption

chapter 10|14 pages

Food, risk and subjectivity

chapter 11|17 pages

The ritual of health promotion

chapter 12|19 pages

Drugs and risk

Graham Hart and Simon Carter