Health Studies

This volume brings together key readings of significant moments in the understanding of health. It goes beyond the often superficial literature-review style of medical sociology texts.

Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Biomedicine and the Body:. 1. Biomedicine and the Body: Colin Samson. 2. Spaces and Classes: Michel Foucault. 3. Natural Facts: A Historical Perspective on Science and Sexuality: L.J. Jordanova. 4. Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality: Paul Rabinow. Part II: Disease and the Self:. 5. Disease and the Self: Colin Samson. 6. Human Contact in Life-Threatening Environments: James J. Lynch. 7. Cancer and the Self: How Illness Constellates Meaning: Roger Levin. 8. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors: Susan Sontag. 9. Holistic Medicine: Fred Frohock. Part III: The Physician and the Patient: . 10. The Physician and the Patient: Colin Samson. 11. The Last Hippie: Oliver Sacks. 12. The Body as Territory and Wonder: Arthur W. Frank. 13. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and the Medical Encounter: Lesley Cooper. 14. A Fortunate Man: John Berger. Part IV: Creating Sickness: . 15. Creating Sickness: Colin Samson. 16. Results of Industrialisation: Freidrich Engels. 17. Rats' Tails and Trypanosomes: Nature and Culture in Early Colonial Medicine: Megan Vaughan. 18. Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being: Harold Napoleon. 19. Nervoso: Medicine, Sickness, and Human Needs: Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Index.