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Health and social change
A critical scheme

GRAHAM SCAMBLER

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Open University Press Celtic Court 22 Ballmoor Buckingham MK18 1XW email: enquiries@openup.co.uk world wide web: www.openup.co.uk and 325 Chestnut highroad Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA First Published 2002 Copyright © whole wheat flour Scambler, 2002 All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of admonition and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any underframe or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the precedent written permission of the publisher or a demonstrate from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd of 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1P 0LP. A inventory record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 335 20479 1 (pb) 0 335 20480 5 (hb)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication info Scambler, Graham. Health and social change : a critical theory / Graham Scambler. p. cm. (Issues in society) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-335-20480-5 ISBN 0-335-20479-1 (pbk.) 1. Health societal aspects. 2. Social change. 3.



Social medicine. I. Title. II. Series. RA418.S295 2002 306.4?61dc21 2001036207

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Contents

Series editors warm-up Acknowledgements Introduction Part one Health, medicine and society 1 Paradigms and presuppositions The backdrop of (neo-)positivism Structural-functionalism Interactionism Phenomenology Con?ict theory Loose threads postmodernistist options: pros, cons and rationality The postmodern turn and its conceptual apparatus The postmodern in medical sociology The postmodern: some observations and quali?cations Sociology of the...If you want to take away a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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