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Summary: | Biomedicine is the dominant organizing framework of modern medicine but it is not the only lens through which health, illness and disease can be understood. This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars from around the world who seek to probe the boundaries of biomedicine. This book is the outcome of the third global conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease," held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in July 2004. The papers selected for this volume take a variety of theoretical positions but share an interest in the social study of health, ill.
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Item Description: | This book is the outcome of the third global conference on "Making sense of health, illness and disease" held in 2004. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 1423788249 9781423788249 9789401202961 9401202966 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |