Introduction theory, theorists and the sociology of health / Graham Scambler
Foucault, health and healthcare / Alan Petersen Chapter
Consuming bodies : Zygmunt Bauman on the difference between fitness and health / Paul Higgs
Jurgen Habermas : politics and morality in health and medicine / Gemma Edwards
Luhmann's social systems theory, health and illness / Barry Gibson and Olga Boiko
Bourdieu and the impact of health and illness in the lifeworld / Sasha Scambler
Merleau-Ponty, medicine and the body / Nick Crossley
World system theory and the epidemiological transition / Martin Hyde And Anthony Rosie
Archer, morphogenesis and the role of agency in the sociology of health inequalities / Graham Scambler
Deleuze and Guattari / Nick Fox
Health and medicine in the information age : Castells, informational capitalism and the network society / Simon Williams.
Contemporary theorists for medical sociology. ISBN 9780415597838. Published by Routledge in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.