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• Title:A sociology of health / edited by David Wainwright.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Wainwright, David, 1965-
  
• Published/Created:London : SAGE Pubs., 2008.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA31 .S275 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA31 .S275 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Social medicine.
  
• Description:xvi, 199 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1412921570 (cloth)
  9781412921572 (cloth)
  1412921589 (paper)
  9781412921589 (paper)
  
• Contents:1. Changing Face of Medical Sociology / David Wainwright
  2. Doing Better, Feeling Scared: Health Statistics and the Culture of Fear / Alan Buckingham
  3. Object of Medicine / Stephen Bowler
  4. Health Scares and Risk Awareness / Adam Burgess
  5. Illness Behaviour and the Discourse of Health / David Wainwright
  6. Medicalisation in a Therapy Culture / Frank Furedi
  7. 'Feminisation' of Health / Ellie Lee and Elizabeth Frayn
  8. Medicine, Science and 'Higher Superstition' / Tracey Brown
  9. New Dimensions of Health Care Organisation / Mike Bury
  10. Changing Concepts of International Health / Vanessa Pupavac.