Medical Work, Medical Knowledge and Health Care: A Sociology of Health & Illness Reader (Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs)

This Reader introduces students of sociology and health care to the changing fields of medical knowledge and medical work.

• Provides a chronicle of reseach in the field of medical knowledge, medical work and health care over the past 25 years.
  
• Summarises changes in how health care was delivered and how medical knowledge and practice were conceptualised over this period.
  
• Section introductions by the editors situate the articles within a wider body of literature.
  
• A valuable resource for student of sociiology, social policy, social work, health policy or health care.