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Medicine As Culture

Medicine As Culture

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  • ISBN-13: 9780803989252
  • ISBN: 0803989253
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited

AUTHOR

Lupton, Deborah

SUMMARY

Deborah Lupton provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in western societies. She cogently links the different theoretical perspectives informing scholarship and research directed towards understanding the socio-cultural dimensions of medicine, illness and the body at the end of the twentieth century.Key topics examined include: socio-theoretical and feminist perspectives of medicine; cultural representations of illness and disease; the language and visual imagery of medicine, illness and disease; and the development of the 'patient' and relations of power in the doctor-patient relationship.Lupton, Deborah is the author of 'Medicine As Culture' with ISBN 9780803989252 and ISBN 0803989253.

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