Name: Ideas about Illness
ISBN: 978-1-349-20016-0

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Uta Gerhardt

Uta Gerhardt

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Pages 352-425

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In this book, Uta Gerhardt maintains that the sociological definition of deviance as disease has, at its roots, a political connotation. She traces how the four schools of mid- and late-twentieth century sociology have dealt with the idea of illness from structural functionalism through interactionism and phenomenology to conflict theory.

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Book Title: Ideas about Illness
Book Subtitle: An Intellectual and Political History of Medical Sociology
Authors: Uta Gerhardt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20016-0
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 425
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Sociology, general, Medical Sociology, Political History

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