Lupton, Deborah.

Medicine as culture: illness, disease, and the body / Deborah Lupton. - 3rd ed. - Los Angeles : SAGE, 2012. - xii, 195 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-190) and index.

1. Theoretical perspectives on medicine and society
2. The body in medicine
3. Representations of medicine, illness and the body
4. The lay perspective on illness and disease
5. Power relations and the medical encounter
6. Feminism and medicine

9781446208946


Social medicine.
Medical anthropology.
Social Medicine.
Anthropology, Cultural.

306.461 / LUP/M