Medical Power and Social Knowledge.

Abstract

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Medical Sociology Religion and Medicine From Sin to Sickness PART TWO: CONCEPTS OF DISEASE AND SICKNESS On Being Sick Madness and Psychiatry - Colin Samson Women's Complaints Patriarchy and Illness Aging, Dying and Death PART THREE: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL POWER Professions, Knowledge and Power Medical Bureaucracies The Hospital, the Clinic and Modern Society Capitalism, Class and Illness Comparative Health Systems The Globalization of Medical Power PART FOUR: CONCLUSION The Regulation of Bodies Risk Society and the New Regime of Disease The Expanding Field of the Sociology of the Body