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060			_aW 61.
100	0		_aLupton, D.
245	0	0	_aMedicine as culture: illness, disease and the body in western societies.
260			_aLondon : _bSage, _c1994.
500			_aBOOK.
505	0		_a1 - Theoretical perspectives on medicine and society.
505	0		_a2 - The body in medicine.
505	0		_a3 - Representations of medicine, illness and disease in elite and popular culture.
505	0		_a4 - The lay perspective on illness and disease.
505	0		_a5 - Power relations and the medical encounter.
505	0		_a6 - Feminisms and medicine.
520			_aDeborah Lupton provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in western societies. She cogently links the different theoretical perspectives informing scholarship and research directed towards understanding the socio-cultural dimensions of medicine, illness and the body at the end of the twentieth century. Key topics examined include: socio-theoretical and feminist perspectives of medicine; cultural representations of illness and disease; the language and visual imagery of medicine, illness and disease; and the development of the `patient' and relations of power in the doctor-patient relationship.
650		0	_aMedicine.
650		0	_aCulture.
650		0	_aPhilosophy, medical _97412
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340			_aBook
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