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This Text Brings Together A Range Of Eminent International Scholars To Reflect Upon Matters Of Health, Medicine And Society At The Turn Of The Century. Book Cover; Title; Contents; List Of Contributors; Introduction; Health, Medicine And Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas; Rethinking Social Structure And Health; Class, Time And Biography; Gender, Postmodernism And Health; A Place For Race? Medical Sociology And The Critique Of Racial Ideology; Health, Ageing And The Lifecourse; The Body; Childhood Bodies: Social Construction And Translation; Flexible Bodies: Science And A New Culture Of Health In The Us; 'recombinant Bodies': Narrative, Metaphor And The Gene; The Politics Of 'disabled' Bodies Reflections On The 'mortal' Body In Late Modernityrisk And Consumption; Food, Risk And Subjectivity; The Ritual Of Health Promotion; Drugs And Risk: Developing A Sociology Of Hiv Risk Behaviour; Health Care And Consumption; Emotions; Emotions, Psychiatry And Social Order: A Habermasian Approach; Emotions, Social Structure And Health: Rethinking The Class Inequalities Debate; Emotions And Gender In Us Health Care Contexts: Implications For Change And Stasis In The Edited By Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe, And Michael Calnan. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English